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Ch5
Merle was talking to Van when Gaddes had come and told them of the attack. It's not like he had to inform them, seeing as the entire ship was shaking violently and Allen's soldiers were running about, yelling orders to each other. Van had left to pilot Escaflowne in the upcoming battle, and Merle was by a window, watching the battle. It worried her every time Van fought with his Guymelef, Escaflowne. She sighed, 'It's like he's a different person when he fights.' She looked at him once more, "Oh, Van- sama, please don't die."
Kagome left her room to see what all the shaking was about, and wasn't too surprised to see Inuyasha bickering with SesshouMaru about something. Not really caring what they were talking about, she walked passed them to stand by Merle. The cat-girl seemed to be depressed about something as she gazed out the window.
Kagome stood next to her for a while, and was startled when Merle spoke, "Oh, Van-sama, please don't die."
Kagome looked over at her, "What?"
"Huh?" Merle looked over, "Van-sama is out there fighting."
"Fighting?" Kagome looked out and noticed Escaflowne had gone to it's dragon form, and Van was trying to lead the enemy away, "But, who is he fighting?"
"Zaibach. They're the ones that-" Merle was cut off by Inuyasha's yelling.
"-THERE'S NO WAY IN HELL THAT I'M LETTING YOU DO THAT!" The only reason Inuyasha stopped was because SesshouMaru's hand wrapped itself around his neck.
"Listen, half-breed, those enemies are like nothing I've seen before, and getting close to them would be more than difficult for you. I refuse to stand by and watch as you go and get killed because you refuse to listen to reason!"
Kagome ran over to them, "What's going on?!"
Inuyasha struggled to speak, "The basterd's.........trying...to keep......me in here......"
"What Inuyasha's trying to say is that he wanted to charge out, recklessly, and fight." SesshouMaru released his sibling's neck, "But it is quite obvious that they are like nothing we've ever dealt with before. There is a chance that swinging Tetseiga around, aimlessly, won't save him."
Kagome rolled her eyes, "Those things that the people are piloting are called 'Guymelefs'. They're like robots. I've seen Balgus take one down with just a sword, so I'm pretty sure it's possible, but" she looked at SesshouMaru, "there would be a much better chance if you fought them in your true form."
SesshouMaru scoffed, "You seem to be forgetting something. I can no longer move very well in me true form, seeing as I am missing an arm." He glared daggers at Inuyasha. Kagome stepped closer to him, and moved the sleeve that covered where his arm used to be. SesshouMaru grabbed her wrist, "What do you think you're doing?"
"Giving you your arm back," Kagome yanked her wrist out of his grasp and held his sleeve up. With her other hand, she concentrated her miko energy on the nub where his arm used to be and closed her eyes. 'Please grow back.' As if hearing her silent plea, SesshouMaru's arm began to grow back. First the bone structure appeared, then the nerves, muscle, and tissue, and finally flawless skin covered it, complete with two maroon stripes to match the ones on his other arm. "There, happy now?!"
After inspecting his arm SesshouMaru nodded, "It would appear that I will be able to help out after all." Ignoring the confused glances, SesshouMaru looked at Kagome, "I thank you for my arm. It would have taken decades to grow back on it's own."
As he started to walk away, Inuyasha followed behind, "Oh no you don't! I'm not being left behind!"
Allen stood on top of his ship, inside of his Guymelef, and fought off any enemy that dared attack him. His vigil watch over any and all movement the enemy made was disrupted when he saw SesshouMaru standing calmly next to him. 'What the Hell?' he thought as the demon lord's body began to change, and the air picked up. By the time it was over, Lord SesshouMaru was no longer standing next to him, and in his stead, was a giant white dog. This distraction, of coarse, did not come without consequence. While Allen was watching this, one of the Dragon Slayers had snuck up behind him, and slashed through his back with a sword. (when I say 'his', or 'him', I mean his Guymelef.........in case you haven't figured that out already) This caused Allen to stumble forward a bit before turning around in time to block another strike. The sheer force of this second strike was enough to push Allen back.........and off the ship.
SesshouMaru saw Allen fall, and was about to rush after him, but he stopped when he saw Allen's attacker turn towards him. Without any further thought, SesshouMaru pounced it, and bit off it's head. Swiftly, the poison from SesshouMaru's fangs melted away at the machine, and soon all that was left was a pile of mush. Looking over the edge, SesshouMaru couldn't see anything below other than the rapids of the river they had been flying over.
Growling, SesshouMaru looked around to see a few more foes that were surrounding him. They shot out, what looked to be, harpoons, but SesshouMaru dodged all of it, and was about to attack them, but Inuyasha beat him to it. The half-breed had made his way to the top of the air-ship, and was now using Tetseiga against them. He leapt into the air, and cut one of them in half, strait down the middle. SesshouMaru used his front claws to make a diagonal cut down the other one, and paid little attention to the exploration it caused.
He was more concerned with the fire that seemed to be coming from inside of the ship. Inuyasha jumped onto his back and said, "I don't know what happened, but they've managed to hit this thing's engines. I suggest you make for the water, 'cause we're going down." Jumping off of him, Inuyasha turned and yelled, "AND DON'T YOU DARE RUN AWAY! WHEN I'M FINISHED GETTING KAGOME, I HAD BETTER SEE YOU WAITING FOR US!"
SesshouMaru, who decided to ignore the fact that the half-breed had stood on his back as though he were some kind of mule, growled at Inuyasha, 'Honestly! Thinking I would run away! Besides, where the Hell would I go?!' SesshouMaru reverted to his humanoid form, and stayed a few yards above the water using his youkia-cloud.
Something blasted through the ship, and all Kagome heard was Hitome's scream. In a panic, she ran to their room, to find a gaping hole in the wall, and her friend gone. "Hitome-san!" Kagome called, hoping to hear an answer, "HITOME-SAN!!!"
Merle ran in right behind her, "Oh no! They took Hitome!"
Suddenly, Inuyasha jumped through the hole, "C'mon, Kagome, we gotta get the Hell outta here before this thing goes down!"
"What about Allen or his crew?" Kagome asked, afraid he'd want to leave them behind.
"I don't know about Allen, and the rest of them aren't important, now come on! We don't have time for this crap!" Inuyasha bent down and Kagome got on his back, along with Merle. "Oh, Hell no! There's no way I'm giving her a ride too!"
Kagome made a growl that could rival SesshouMaru's, "Listen, Inuyasha, Merle may not be my friend but that doesn't mean that I'm going to leave her here!"
"Fine, fine, whatever!" Inuyasha said as he jumped out of the hole.
Merle held onto the half-breed as tightly as she could whilst Kagome lost her grip and began plummeting towards the ground. Kagome closed her eyes tightly, awaiting the impact that never came. Peaking and eye open, Kagome looked up to see SesshouMaru staring down his nose at her.
"Honestly, humans." She heard him mutter to himself.
Disregarding his last comment, Kagome looked to the side to see Inuyasha trying to peel Merle off his back. There didn't seem to be much progress, since Merle still thought they were falling and dug her claws into his back. Standing up, Kagome looked back at SesshouMaru, "Do you know what happened to Allen-sama or Hitome-san?"
"I don't know what happened to the girl, or your brother for that matter, but I saw Allen's Guymelef plummet into the water below us. I haven't seen any sign of him since then."
"Oh." Kagome's eyes became downcast, "I know that I saw Van-san leading away one of the enemy Guymelefs, but I don't know where he went. And I think that Hitome was kidnapped by Zaibach." She looked up as SesshouMaru with pleading eyes, "Is there any way you can find out where Van-san is by sniffing him out or something? I have to know he's safe." She said that last part more to herself than SesshouMaru.
The regal demon lord nodded, "I believe I can. But first, see what you can do to stop the half-breed from squirming around and get that girl off of him, it's annoying me."
Kagome nodded, "Yeah, sure."
Walking over to them, Kagome grabbed hold of Merle's waist and held it tightly. "Osuwari." She said, causing Inuyasha to fall to the ground. As he fell, Merle stayed still and her claws came out of him... in a painful way.
SesshouMaru merely smirked as Inuyasha said some rather 'colorful' words. Kagome rolled her eyes, and ignored him. Merle looked around, when she figured out they were actually on some sort of ground. After a while she asked the question that everyone had given at least one second's thought to, "Where do we go now?"
"Feh! I'll tell you where we go, we go home!" He growled at Merle, "And you're staying here in the water!"
"I'd like to see you try, dog-boy!"
"And what, exactly, is so bad about dogs?" SesshouMaru raised an eyebrow.
Merle crossed her arms, and held up her chin in an arrogant fashion, "Everything! For one, they're not nearly as clean as cats, and another thing about them that pisses me off is that they're all stupid, arrogant-"
Kagome covered Merle's mouth before she could say anything else, "I think it's time for you to be quiet, Merle. Unless, that is, you want to be ripped limb from limb."
Inuyasha spoke, "I think I got it. That Hitome girl must have been kidnapped by the enemy, but none of us know too much about said enemy. If we can find Allen, there's a good chance he'll be able to help. SesshouMaru, you turn into your true form and swim in the water, while we-"
SesshouMaru cut him off, "Ride on my back? I think not. If anything, I'll drop you all off on the nearest bit of land, and look for him myself," he smirked, "besides, if I let you on my back again, Inuyasha, I just might get flees."
"What was that?!" Inuyasha growled.
Kagome stepped between the two brothers, "Listen, we're not going to get anywhere by fighting, ok? What we need to do is come up with some sort of plan. So far we know two things, A) we need to find Allen, B) Hitome's been taken by the enemy."
"What about Van-sama?" Merle asked.
Kagome sighed, "He'll just have to make it on his own for now. But we'll find him later. Besides, Van-san can take care of himself, so don't worry." Merle nodded as Kagome and the others came up with a plan.
Van, who was riding in Escaflowne's non-dragon form, stabbed the last of the three Dragon-slayers that had followed him in it's power-core (I forgot what it was called) before sighing to himself, 'I hope everyone else is doing fine.' After Escaflowne transformed back into it's dragon-form, he started to head back in the direction from whence he came, "Why do I have this bad feeling?" he questioned to himself.
Dilandau laughed as he returned to Zaibach's main floating city, "Well, Van, let's see how you do without your woman there to save you." He landed his Guymelef, and picked up Hitome, who was still unconscious from when he had entered her room, after breaking down the wall, and hit one of the pressure points on her neck. He carried her over his shoulder to the main room, where Folken was waiting. "Oi, Strategos where do I put her?"
Folken looked at the girl in Dilandau's arms, and recognized her as the girl that was with Van, "Put her in the same room that the king of Fenalia was held in."
Dilandau walked to the room, and dropped her on the bed. As he was walking away, he heard her talking, and turned to see that she was talking in her sleep. All that he could make was, "Don't... burn... Van... kill..." Ignoring her words as just a nightmare, Dilandau walked out of the room, and went to check on the rest of the Dragon-slayers.
Hitome's Dream
Hitome stood, surrounded by a light blue glow, watching as Dilandau, in his red Guymelef, was burning everything in sight. "Don't..." she murmured, listening to the echoed cries of the helpless people that were running away from the flames that soon engulfed them. She watched as Van, in his Escaflowne, came to stop Dilandau. She couldn't decide what to make of the new feeling that arose within her as she watched the flames dance around the, now fighting, Guymelefs, "burn..." She couldn't help but notice how beautiful the flames seemed, the perfect mixture of oranges, yellows, and blues. Nor could she ignore the color of the blood that stained the ground she was on. The marvelous red that was beginning to cover everything, "kill..."
(Yes, it took a long time. Yes, it sucks. And yes, I can't decided whether or not Hitome was telling the people not to run from the flames, or not to die... but by the end of the story I'm sure we'll have it all figured out... hopefully. ((PS. because of this new 'quick edit' thing, the spaceing in my story and the (((squigly line, star))) things keep getting removed and fucked up. if there is any problem, I appologize, but there's nothing i can do about it.)) Bah-bye)
Ch5
Merle was talking to Van when Gaddes had come and told them of the attack. It's not like he had to inform them, seeing as the entire ship was shaking violently and Allen's soldiers were running about, yelling orders to each other. Van had left to pilot Escaflowne in the upcoming battle, and Merle was by a window, watching the battle. It worried her every time Van fought with his Guymelef, Escaflowne. She sighed, 'It's like he's a different person when he fights.' She looked at him once more, "Oh, Van- sama, please don't die."
Kagome left her room to see what all the shaking was about, and wasn't too surprised to see Inuyasha bickering with SesshouMaru about something. Not really caring what they were talking about, she walked passed them to stand by Merle. The cat-girl seemed to be depressed about something as she gazed out the window.
Kagome stood next to her for a while, and was startled when Merle spoke, "Oh, Van-sama, please don't die."
Kagome looked over at her, "What?"
"Huh?" Merle looked over, "Van-sama is out there fighting."
"Fighting?" Kagome looked out and noticed Escaflowne had gone to it's dragon form, and Van was trying to lead the enemy away, "But, who is he fighting?"
"Zaibach. They're the ones that-" Merle was cut off by Inuyasha's yelling.
"-THERE'S NO WAY IN HELL THAT I'M LETTING YOU DO THAT!" The only reason Inuyasha stopped was because SesshouMaru's hand wrapped itself around his neck.
"Listen, half-breed, those enemies are like nothing I've seen before, and getting close to them would be more than difficult for you. I refuse to stand by and watch as you go and get killed because you refuse to listen to reason!"
Kagome ran over to them, "What's going on?!"
Inuyasha struggled to speak, "The basterd's.........trying...to keep......me in here......"
"What Inuyasha's trying to say is that he wanted to charge out, recklessly, and fight." SesshouMaru released his sibling's neck, "But it is quite obvious that they are like nothing we've ever dealt with before. There is a chance that swinging Tetseiga around, aimlessly, won't save him."
Kagome rolled her eyes, "Those things that the people are piloting are called 'Guymelefs'. They're like robots. I've seen Balgus take one down with just a sword, so I'm pretty sure it's possible, but" she looked at SesshouMaru, "there would be a much better chance if you fought them in your true form."
SesshouMaru scoffed, "You seem to be forgetting something. I can no longer move very well in me true form, seeing as I am missing an arm." He glared daggers at Inuyasha. Kagome stepped closer to him, and moved the sleeve that covered where his arm used to be. SesshouMaru grabbed her wrist, "What do you think you're doing?"
"Giving you your arm back," Kagome yanked her wrist out of his grasp and held his sleeve up. With her other hand, she concentrated her miko energy on the nub where his arm used to be and closed her eyes. 'Please grow back.' As if hearing her silent plea, SesshouMaru's arm began to grow back. First the bone structure appeared, then the nerves, muscle, and tissue, and finally flawless skin covered it, complete with two maroon stripes to match the ones on his other arm. "There, happy now?!"
After inspecting his arm SesshouMaru nodded, "It would appear that I will be able to help out after all." Ignoring the confused glances, SesshouMaru looked at Kagome, "I thank you for my arm. It would have taken decades to grow back on it's own."
As he started to walk away, Inuyasha followed behind, "Oh no you don't! I'm not being left behind!"
Allen stood on top of his ship, inside of his Guymelef, and fought off any enemy that dared attack him. His vigil watch over any and all movement the enemy made was disrupted when he saw SesshouMaru standing calmly next to him. 'What the Hell?' he thought as the demon lord's body began to change, and the air picked up. By the time it was over, Lord SesshouMaru was no longer standing next to him, and in his stead, was a giant white dog. This distraction, of coarse, did not come without consequence. While Allen was watching this, one of the Dragon Slayers had snuck up behind him, and slashed through his back with a sword. (when I say 'his', or 'him', I mean his Guymelef.........in case you haven't figured that out already) This caused Allen to stumble forward a bit before turning around in time to block another strike. The sheer force of this second strike was enough to push Allen back.........and off the ship.
SesshouMaru saw Allen fall, and was about to rush after him, but he stopped when he saw Allen's attacker turn towards him. Without any further thought, SesshouMaru pounced it, and bit off it's head. Swiftly, the poison from SesshouMaru's fangs melted away at the machine, and soon all that was left was a pile of mush. Looking over the edge, SesshouMaru couldn't see anything below other than the rapids of the river they had been flying over.
Growling, SesshouMaru looked around to see a few more foes that were surrounding him. They shot out, what looked to be, harpoons, but SesshouMaru dodged all of it, and was about to attack them, but Inuyasha beat him to it. The half-breed had made his way to the top of the air-ship, and was now using Tetseiga against them. He leapt into the air, and cut one of them in half, strait down the middle. SesshouMaru used his front claws to make a diagonal cut down the other one, and paid little attention to the exploration it caused.
He was more concerned with the fire that seemed to be coming from inside of the ship. Inuyasha jumped onto his back and said, "I don't know what happened, but they've managed to hit this thing's engines. I suggest you make for the water, 'cause we're going down." Jumping off of him, Inuyasha turned and yelled, "AND DON'T YOU DARE RUN AWAY! WHEN I'M FINISHED GETTING KAGOME, I HAD BETTER SEE YOU WAITING FOR US!"
SesshouMaru, who decided to ignore the fact that the half-breed had stood on his back as though he were some kind of mule, growled at Inuyasha, 'Honestly! Thinking I would run away! Besides, where the Hell would I go?!' SesshouMaru reverted to his humanoid form, and stayed a few yards above the water using his youkia-cloud.
Something blasted through the ship, and all Kagome heard was Hitome's scream. In a panic, she ran to their room, to find a gaping hole in the wall, and her friend gone. "Hitome-san!" Kagome called, hoping to hear an answer, "HITOME-SAN!!!"
Merle ran in right behind her, "Oh no! They took Hitome!"
Suddenly, Inuyasha jumped through the hole, "C'mon, Kagome, we gotta get the Hell outta here before this thing goes down!"
"What about Allen or his crew?" Kagome asked, afraid he'd want to leave them behind.
"I don't know about Allen, and the rest of them aren't important, now come on! We don't have time for this crap!" Inuyasha bent down and Kagome got on his back, along with Merle. "Oh, Hell no! There's no way I'm giving her a ride too!"
Kagome made a growl that could rival SesshouMaru's, "Listen, Inuyasha, Merle may not be my friend but that doesn't mean that I'm going to leave her here!"
"Fine, fine, whatever!" Inuyasha said as he jumped out of the hole.
Merle held onto the half-breed as tightly as she could whilst Kagome lost her grip and began plummeting towards the ground. Kagome closed her eyes tightly, awaiting the impact that never came. Peaking and eye open, Kagome looked up to see SesshouMaru staring down his nose at her.
"Honestly, humans." She heard him mutter to himself.
Disregarding his last comment, Kagome looked to the side to see Inuyasha trying to peel Merle off his back. There didn't seem to be much progress, since Merle still thought they were falling and dug her claws into his back. Standing up, Kagome looked back at SesshouMaru, "Do you know what happened to Allen-sama or Hitome-san?"
"I don't know what happened to the girl, or your brother for that matter, but I saw Allen's Guymelef plummet into the water below us. I haven't seen any sign of him since then."
"Oh." Kagome's eyes became downcast, "I know that I saw Van-san leading away one of the enemy Guymelefs, but I don't know where he went. And I think that Hitome was kidnapped by Zaibach." She looked up as SesshouMaru with pleading eyes, "Is there any way you can find out where Van-san is by sniffing him out or something? I have to know he's safe." She said that last part more to herself than SesshouMaru.
The regal demon lord nodded, "I believe I can. But first, see what you can do to stop the half-breed from squirming around and get that girl off of him, it's annoying me."
Kagome nodded, "Yeah, sure."
Walking over to them, Kagome grabbed hold of Merle's waist and held it tightly. "Osuwari." She said, causing Inuyasha to fall to the ground. As he fell, Merle stayed still and her claws came out of him... in a painful way.
SesshouMaru merely smirked as Inuyasha said some rather 'colorful' words. Kagome rolled her eyes, and ignored him. Merle looked around, when she figured out they were actually on some sort of ground. After a while she asked the question that everyone had given at least one second's thought to, "Where do we go now?"
"Feh! I'll tell you where we go, we go home!" He growled at Merle, "And you're staying here in the water!"
"I'd like to see you try, dog-boy!"
"And what, exactly, is so bad about dogs?" SesshouMaru raised an eyebrow.
Merle crossed her arms, and held up her chin in an arrogant fashion, "Everything! For one, they're not nearly as clean as cats, and another thing about them that pisses me off is that they're all stupid, arrogant-"
Kagome covered Merle's mouth before she could say anything else, "I think it's time for you to be quiet, Merle. Unless, that is, you want to be ripped limb from limb."
Inuyasha spoke, "I think I got it. That Hitome girl must have been kidnapped by the enemy, but none of us know too much about said enemy. If we can find Allen, there's a good chance he'll be able to help. SesshouMaru, you turn into your true form and swim in the water, while we-"
SesshouMaru cut him off, "Ride on my back? I think not. If anything, I'll drop you all off on the nearest bit of land, and look for him myself," he smirked, "besides, if I let you on my back again, Inuyasha, I just might get flees."
"What was that?!" Inuyasha growled.
Kagome stepped between the two brothers, "Listen, we're not going to get anywhere by fighting, ok? What we need to do is come up with some sort of plan. So far we know two things, A) we need to find Allen, B) Hitome's been taken by the enemy."
"What about Van-sama?" Merle asked.
Kagome sighed, "He'll just have to make it on his own for now. But we'll find him later. Besides, Van-san can take care of himself, so don't worry." Merle nodded as Kagome and the others came up with a plan.
Van, who was riding in Escaflowne's non-dragon form, stabbed the last of the three Dragon-slayers that had followed him in it's power-core (I forgot what it was called) before sighing to himself, 'I hope everyone else is doing fine.' After Escaflowne transformed back into it's dragon-form, he started to head back in the direction from whence he came, "Why do I have this bad feeling?" he questioned to himself.
Dilandau laughed as he returned to Zaibach's main floating city, "Well, Van, let's see how you do without your woman there to save you." He landed his Guymelef, and picked up Hitome, who was still unconscious from when he had entered her room, after breaking down the wall, and hit one of the pressure points on her neck. He carried her over his shoulder to the main room, where Folken was waiting. "Oi, Strategos where do I put her?"
Folken looked at the girl in Dilandau's arms, and recognized her as the girl that was with Van, "Put her in the same room that the king of Fenalia was held in."
Dilandau walked to the room, and dropped her on the bed. As he was walking away, he heard her talking, and turned to see that she was talking in her sleep. All that he could make was, "Don't... burn... Van... kill..." Ignoring her words as just a nightmare, Dilandau walked out of the room, and went to check on the rest of the Dragon-slayers.
Hitome's Dream
Hitome stood, surrounded by a light blue glow, watching as Dilandau, in his red Guymelef, was burning everything in sight. "Don't..." she murmured, listening to the echoed cries of the helpless people that were running away from the flames that soon engulfed them. She watched as Van, in his Escaflowne, came to stop Dilandau. She couldn't decide what to make of the new feeling that arose within her as she watched the flames dance around the, now fighting, Guymelefs, "burn..." She couldn't help but notice how beautiful the flames seemed, the perfect mixture of oranges, yellows, and blues. Nor could she ignore the color of the blood that stained the ground she was on. The marvelous red that was beginning to cover everything, "kill..."
(Yes, it took a long time. Yes, it sucks. And yes, I can't decided whether or not Hitome was telling the people not to run from the flames, or not to die... but by the end of the story I'm sure we'll have it all figured out... hopefully. ((PS. because of this new 'quick edit' thing, the spaceing in my story and the (((squigly line, star))) things keep getting removed and fucked up. if there is any problem, I appologize, but there's nothing i can do about it.)) Bah-bye)