The Demon Bride
By Crystal Arrow
Chapter 9: The End of childhood…
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or the other characters from that story; they belong to someone else who actually has talent.
Michera ran, she ran faster than she had ever run before in her life towards her families summer home in the distance. I smell blood, a lot of it, Daddy's blood!! She ran faster, a small dark blur running towards her lost home, following the scent of her father's blood. In the distance, she could see her father, he was fighting another demon, a stronger demon who was about to defeat him. But Michera couldn't allow that, her father was the strongest demon in the west, she had to save him!
Michera came to a screeching halt in front of her father, tail and hair flowing in the wind among the folds of her excessively big kimono. As the dust settled about her small form in front of her huge father in canine form, the witch Teruhi gasped, "Why, it's you….."
The black wolf demon growled at the runt that was the interruption of his kill. Michera visibly winced in fear of the large demon, over twenty times her size. Behind her, her father growled back at him. "Michera…" he growled under his breath, "You shouldn't have come."
Michera knew she should have stayed with her brothers, especially since now, she was trapped in a no win situation surround by many incredibly strong wolves who had followed her back from the site of her mother's death. But Michera wouldn't admit that, she had to stay with her father no matter what! "But Daddy!" Michera cried, "I want to be with you, Mommy fell down and she made Sessy and Inu-chan leave without me when I ran, because I don't want them to hurt you daddy!!"
A cackle sounded evilly from behind the wolf. "Aw, how sweet, the little baby come to save her father…there's no chance!" Her voice changed dramatically from mocking to fearsome as Teruhi roared, "Kill the dog bastard and take the child!"
With that cry both the dog and the wolf lunged at each other snarling, over the small pup beneath them. The wolf jumped lower than the demon lord, taking his opponent's throat into his blood thirsty jaws. As they passed each other, a ripping sound could be heard, then they landed once more, facing each other. The large black wolf stood, one side of his face ripped and cut by the demon lord's claws. However the demon lord lay collapsed upon the ground, thick demonic blood spilling from his torn and shredded throat. The wound was mortal, the demon lord was dying. "DADDY!!!" Michera screamed in agony as her father had landed.
"Now, wolf finish your job and take the child!" Teruhi ordered, her long spindly nail pointing straight for Michera. The wolf shook his head viciously, splattering his own blood on his surroundings.
"Michera…", the demon lord whispered hoarsely, "Run, run away… go while you still can, …GO!" But Michera didn't listen she rose, clear and absolutely pure tears spilling down upon her tiny hands, now covered in her father's blood. Flicking her head and her bangs up, she glared at the wolf, golden eyes glistening as tears fell down her flushed cheeks. A tiny, barely audible growl to the wolf was being emitted from Michera's tiny form as she glared at the wolf viciously.
You could almost see the wolf shake in laughter at the pup's attempts to frighten him away. "Michera… no...please…run….." Her father whispered, that little bit of voice alone causing him immense pain.
The evil witch, Teruhi laughed again as the wolf's laughter turned dark snarl as he leapt at the small pup before him. However, mid-flight, the wolf was stopped. Michera had lifted her hand to point her tiny needle like claws at him crying out, "Daggers of tears!!" The tears that had fallen upon her hand were projected at the wolf demon in a massive blast of energy, mid-flight. The tears were turned into long streaks of crystal or ice that flew at the wolf as an amazing speed, shattering within him and on him as they impacted with him.
The force of the long crystalline daggers and the energy blown at him blasted back into the cliff side. He fell to the earth sliding down the crumbling cliff side that was now completely destroyed. And so the wolf lay dust of rocks and crystal settling around him to reveal him weak and dying. There were long and deep gashes within his flesh, pieces of crystal and ice inside each, expanding and stabbing at him with each passing second along with the surrounding boulders that had fallen from the cliff side he smashed in, that had crushed his bones, his back, and his spirit. All was silent around the clearing as bright green eyes blinked at the dying form of their leader. The black wolf was the leader of the almighty western pack of wolves, and his pack wouldn't take the dishonor of accepting a weak leader. A low growling echoed throughout the clearing, deep and menacing, it neither lessened nor increased.
"Father!!" a young voice cried out form within the growling. As Michera lost her power and collapsed next to her father's dying form, a young black wolf emerged from the underbrush. He wouldn't have been any older than her older brother Inuyasha, but he held the air of her other brother, Sesshoumaru.
The young wolf knelt by his father's side, suppressing grief and anger within himself as he tried to honor his father in the very little time he had left. "My son….…" The wolf lord whispered with his last breath before his bright green eyes faded and closed forever.
"Father!!!" the pup cried out in anguish, suppressed tears now flowing freely down his face. He buried his face in his father's mane to stifle his cries, with little success. Michera watched him from her father's side, her petite form engulfed in her father's bloodied fur. Her golden auburn eyes shown with tears, her own feeling equal to those of the boy nearby, for her own father had also faded into death during her attack, leaving her an orphan as well.
The wolf pup's sobs slowly faded away as Teruhi, the witch that caused of all this pain, cackled in her especially evil way. " Oh Ookamishin!!" She laughed harshly, "So nice of you to join us!" Ookamishin…… I'm so sorry, I caused your pain. Michera thought sadly. "However, you are no longer of use to me, so………bye bye!" With that the wolves in the surrounding brush who once loyally followed Ookamishin's father, who now did the bidding of the Teruhi pounced upon the hapless pup. He yelped in pain as sharp claws pierced his young flesh, aiming to kill him.
Ookamishin ran, his small feet barely carrying him three feet before another wolf landed upon, attacking him mercilessly. "Enough! I have no further need of you" Teruhi spat out just as a large gray wolf was about to tear the young pup's throat out. "Go." The pack left without a sound, not even turning to look back at the pup they had once honored as their lord. Ookamishin lay, beaten and bloodied on the ground. He fell back to the ground with each attempt he made to rise. Teruhi watched him with a cold eye as he made one final attempt to rise, only to fall back on all fours, gasping for breath that wouldn't come.
Michera rose, and she approached him, not caring if the wolves killed her, not even afraid that the boy would kill her. She came beside him, and knelt by his side. "I'm sorry," she whispered.
Ookamishin, with much effort, raised his head to look into Michera's eyes. Blood dripped from his face, his left eye was crying blood, and a long gash reached from his eye to his chin. Yet he still managed to glare at her, "Why, Michera, our mission was to kill you?"
She looked into his eyes, grief darkening her eyes to a deep russet, "It wasn't you, it was the witch. Please forgive me."
"This is all very sweet." Teruhi spat venomously, "but I've spent enough time here." With that Teruhi flew at the two pups. With a force unrivaled by any of the wolves, Ookamishin was shoved out of the way as Teruhi grabbed Michera around the waist and took off with her.
However, Ookamishin was not the only thing caught by the blast, the entire clearing was blown to bits, including his father's body. Ookamishin lay, bloodied and mangled against a boulder, he looked up in time to see the witch fly off with Michera unconscious in her arms. As his vision faded he whispered, "I'm sorry too, because.. I could never…forgive…you… Michera…….."
Author's note:
Sorry it took so long for me to finish this chapter, I've been busy, but here it is, please review!
~Crystal Arrow
