Chapter Two:
Left in the Dark....
A slight breeze had picked up, the old tree's in the forest creeked as they're branches swayed-leaves plucked from
their homes and lazily dancing to the ground below. Kneeling in the center of a clearing was a girl with shoulder length
black hair-she had her head bowed and looked sorrowful, as if she was awaiting death. standing in front of her was a
demon with his sword poised to strike, his eyes were burning red with hunger. The whole scene looked like a frozen
memory, silent and still-seconds passing as if they were hours. Hidden from the two a strange woman watched the
scene, a large tree hide her from the demon, but if the girl were to look up, she would spot the woman. her long black
hair flowing gracefully in the breeze, she tried to recall why this scene she had stumbled upon looked so familiar to
her. The breeze suddenly blew stronger, forcing the girl's hair to reveal her face and the woman narrowed her eyes.
The woman didn't waste a second's thought as she pulled out her bow and two arrows, she took a second to aim the
arrows then let go of the string with a small 'twang'.
Holly was biting her bottom lip as she awaited the momentary pain and feel of cold steel as it sliced through the
back of her neck. When nothing happened, holly opened one eye and looked around in confusion and nearly screamed.
Chris had dropped his sword and was screaming in pain as an arrow protruded from his forehead, he tried to pull it out,
but it only burnt his hands. Holly fell back onto her back as she tried to scramble away, but she only got as far as the
bush that she had been thrown into. She couldn't help but watch as the flesh around the arrow in chris' head began to
decay and in only a few moments all that was left of her once friend was a pile of steaming ashes. Tears ran down holly's
face even more as she buried her face in her knees and began to bawl her eyes out.
'Don't waste tears over that filth...'
Holly glanced up through her blurry eyes when she heard a woman's voice, she spotted the woman standing over the ashes,
staring down at them with a disgusted look upon her face. She turned her attention to holly, staring at her with her cold eyes
and dark expressionless face, she still had the bow in her hands.
'you...you killed Chris....'
Holly stuttered, her voice hoarse from crying, she was scared and confused.
the woman narrowed her eyes and began to walk towards holly, who let out a small gasp as if she thought the woman was
coming to kill her next.
'How foolish of you to actually believe that that was your friend.'
the woman said coldly, she stopped a few feet from Holly and looked her over before turning and walking the way she had
come.
'the next time we meet, you had better be prepared, or I will Kill you.'
With that the woman disappeared into the forest, leaving Holly on her own and to ponder about what had just happened to her.
Holly waited a few minutes half expecting the woman to come back, when she didn't Holly stood to her feet and looked around.
'Now what...'
It was growing dark and Holly honestly didn't want to be lost in a strange forest in the dark, who knew whatelse lurked in this
strange place. With a slight limp she began to make her way back to the path she had spotted by the old well, it was just beyond
the far trees and she felt slightly relieved. suddenly something ran into her legs and holly looked around, seeing a white fluff
ball by her feet. She bent down to get a better look at this creature, it had white shaggy fur with black markings on its face.
It reminded Holly of a strange cat, until it turned and revealed that it had two bushy tails and small bat wings. Holly tried to back
away from the creature, but it kept dancing around her feet and making small chriping sounds like a squirrel.
'Go home, Lil' guy...go on...'
She tried shooing it away, the creature took no notice and continued it's chirping and dancing. A twig snapped from behind
holly and she spun around, the creature had stopped it's happy game and now stood infront of holly growling. Voices could
be heard coming closer, it sounded like there was at least three people coming. Holly was now nervous, she hoped that whoever
was coming didn't want to hurt her, maybe the creature had lead the people to holly, but then why would it be growling, holly
was so lost in thoughts that it took her a moment to realize that a small group of people had just entered the clearing. All
conversation stopped as they stared at holly, who stared back at them, the creature was still growling but no one seemed to
take much notice of the small thing. Deciding that perhaps these people were good, holly was about to ask them for help when
a boy with long hair stepped foreward. It was now dark, and holly couldn't make out his features and vice versa, but she did
notice that he was reaching for something, a gun? no, a large sword, he held it out in front of him. this wasn't looking so good
for holly and she just wanted to go home.
'Inuyasha! Wait, she may need our help!'
A girl ran towards the boy and his sword, holly narrowed her eyes, it was hard to tell but this girl looked and sounded like a
friend of the family, she had to take a chance.
'Kagome? Is that you?'
'huh?'
'Kagome, it's me....'
Before holly could finish her sentence the creature burst into flames, holly lept back-kagome and the others turned away from the
sudden heat. All but the boy, who just glared at holly and the changing creature as if he had seen this many times before, but
his expression changed as the flames momentarily light up holly's face.
'M...Mother...'
He lowered his sword and began to walk closer, looking as if he had just seen a ghost. Holly was confused, however before
anything else could be done the creature grabbed holly gentelly by the arm, forcing her onto it's back. It then lept into the air,
spreading its now huge bat wings, higher and higher they flew, for some reason holly was no longer afraid of the creature. She
looked back over her shoulder to see the boy and Kagome watching her, she wanted to talk to Kagome, to let her know that it
was here and to hopefully find out what was going on.
'Mother! Come Back!'
yelled Inuyasha, he was about to follow when he felt the hands of his friends holding him back, he turned to them and growled
angerly.
'Inuyasha, that woman couldn't have been you're mother...'
'How do you know!?'
growled Inuyasha.
'because...she was dressed in clothes from my time....'
was Kagome's response. Inuyasha was still angry at the others, but he had to let the woman go, he was positive though, it didn't
seem like another trick. He decided that he would find this woman, and demand to know why she looks and smells like his
mother.
'come on...we're almost there.'
sighed Miroku, quietly.
the group turned their backs to the singed grass of where the creature had stood and began to head to the village that wasn't too
far.