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Chapter 28
As the castle assistant disappears running into a distant room, quake travels throughout the room making you lose your balance and Inuyasha grabs your hand stopping you from falling and continues to drag you in the direction of the exit.
You continue to follow behind Inuyasha as the castle tremors continue to get more and more harmful. You both suddenly stop looking from straight to right.
"Which way to go?!" Inuyasha asks beside you. You make a quick decision eyeing the two routes.
"Straight!" You two both run straight-forward only to stop and watch as a jumbo-max size snake bursts through the walls of the castle obviously from the outside.
As the giant reptile turns towards you to you notice the red liquid dripping from its fangs and in that instant it barrels towards you two. You back away to a safe distance as Inuyasha lunges at the thing with the Tessaiga drawn. As Inuyasha attempts to slice the things head off, its tail flies toward you, almost getting pelted by it you glare at the thing. Missing you, its tail collides with the wall successfully making the whole room tremble and you falling to your knees as pieces of the ceiling start to crash to the floor around you. Suddenly Inuyasha lands in front of you.
"(Insert Name), hurry up and get going to the exit of the castle!" He yells.
"But, what about-!"
"I'll be right behind you after I finish up here! Now get going!" He interrupts. You slowly get back up to your feet and the snake demon fangs collide against the Tessaiga, pushing Inuyasha backwards a bit. "Just go already!" He yells glancing back at you.
You nod reluctantly and hesitantly turn around and start to run in the opposite direction. 'Be careful... Inuyasha!' You whisper inwardly to yourself. Once getting back to the hall of straight or left you quickly turn left and run in that direction. Soon after turning the corner a wooden beam collapses in front of you and all you have to do is jump over to get to the next side, but after you're over a large amount of the ceiling falls upon the beam and barricades the way to the other side. A bead of sweat slides down the side of your face as you turn and start to run again. 'If everything keeps collapsing around here, then there isn't going to be a safe way for Inuyasha to pass through... I should have stayed with him... At least we'd be stuck together...'
After a while of going completely straight you stop once more at a convenient fork to go either left or right. 'If I go right, I'll be going straight into the main lobby, which is probably in shambles right now and it will be a harder way to reach the right wing... And if I go left all I have to do is follow that one path and eventually I'll reach the outer hall then the outside! Too bad I don't have a coin to flip! Left it is then!' You run down the left path to see it isn't in much ruin.
A few more minutes of running down the left hall you slow down and turn right, being there a dead-end in the other direction. Going farther down into the new hall you see that it's much more damaged than the other. 'Dodge left! Slide right! Jump! Duck! Dodge right! Slide right!' You yell inwardly avoiding demons that seem to be following you and other falling things. 'This is some crappy vacation... Or just a really realistic DDR game...' You muse finally entering the left wing and then stopping dead in your tracks as you see a bunch of demons barricading the way to the outer hall.
"Shit!" You mutter sliding the Kyojin from its sheath.
The last one falls to the ground with a loud thump before as you sheath the Kyojin. You run around it and finally entering the outer hall and pausing looking from left to right you pick a direction and run in it. Glancing at the paper walls you could see sunlight glowing through them. 'It must be a real nice day outside... I wonder what the others are doing... Hopefully not anything as life threatening...' Turning your attention back to the path before you, you notice a familiar person laying slumped on the floor as if unconscious. You cautiously approach the blonde unconscious person on the floor and bend down beside her.
"Adira, are you ok? Adira?" You ask shaking the girl lightly. Frowning you carefully slide the girl off the wall to laying flat on the floor, then noticing the gash the girl's forehead, dripping blood. "Oh shit! Adira!" You gasp noticing the girl's paler than normal features. Thinking quickly you carefully put the girl's arm around your shoulders and slowly started to lift her up from the cold wooden floor.
"Stop right there!" You flinch as you recognize the familiar voice behind you two. "Lady Adira doesn't have permission to leave yet, and if I know any better you don't either Lady (Insert Name)!" You turn around slowly trying to balance Adira with you and before you, you see the flaxen eyed, brunette Kaori.
"You again? You'd think you would have been fired already! What is this? Third times the charm?" You ask the girl with an irritated frown.
"Just being a bit smug huh, human? You were lucky then, but now you're not getting away if you don't want your fair-haired friend to survive!" She says smugly. "Dark fire!!" She yells and black colored flames shoots from hand.
You shift as you think of a plan. 'What to do?! If I leave Adira she'll get hit by the attack, but if I... That's what I'll have to do, a bit risky, but....' You stand your ground as you watch the flames barreling towards you almost ready to put your plan into action. 'Just a little closer...' Before you can even act, you feel yourself get shoved out the way and into the wall.
"Light reflection!!" You hear another familiar voice yell and you open your eyes again to see the one and only Naomi standing before you and your assassin Kaori standing in an orb of black fire screaming out of pain. You stand up pulling stand up pulling Adira with you.
"Naomi, how did you-"
"I'll tell you later, but now you should get Adira out of here! I'll keep her busy!" Naomi says cutting you off and gesturing to the fallen Kaori who's just be released by the orb of fire.
"Alright!" You reply nodding. "But be careful!"
"Of course I will!" She replies and you continue to half-carry Adira towards the exit.
Soon after turning a corner you pause wondering which way to go, left or right? Before you make a decision the girl you're carrying shifts, waking up and you quickly lean her on the wall for support.
"Adira? Are you ok?" You ask softly.
"(Insert Name)...?" She groans quietly blinking and lifting her head upwards. "Where am I?"
"You're at... The castle place me and Inuyasha went to... You don't know how you got here?"
"No... What's going on?" She asks noticing the tremor of the room.
"The castle is collapsing! We have to get out of here now!" You reply remembering the current state of the castle. "Come on!" You say pulling her back up and quickly hobbling toward the supposed exit of the castle.
"...Wait .... Wait!" She cries suddenly becoming frantic pulling away from you.
"But, Adira, we don't have much time! This place might crash to the ground any minute!" You reply trying to keep pulling the girl towards the exit.
"No! I don't want to go! Stop! Get away! Save yourself (Insert Name)!" She wails pulling away from you, but you keep a firm grip on the hysterical girl.
"Adira, why-!" Before you can finish your sentence you receive a hard strike to the cheek sending you airborne, crashing against into the paper thin walls and right threw the walls to the outside landing on your back on top of the fallen paper wall.
Pain races through the veins of your body from your bruised cheek as you open your eyes and shut them quickly once seeing a crescent version of the sun. Once again you open your eyes half-way to see you're in the shade and open your eyes wider to see the giver of your current pain standing above you.
"Adira, what-"
"You don't have the right to say my name!" She interrupts, picking you up by the collar and holding you to her eye level. "Ever again!" She yells and punches you again sending you into flying once again and into a tree.
You twitch scowling up at the slowly approaching girl before you and try to into a standing position. 'Shit! She went from weak, sickly and frail, to scarily strong and evil!' You say catching the malicious glint in her eye. 'This is bad... I need to get up before she beats me to death!' You inwardly wail to yourself, while quickly getting into a weak stance and pulling out the Kyojin. The blonde pauses eyeing you cautiously for a second then throws her head back and laughs.
"You've got to be kidding me?! You're going to try and fight me? After what one of my punches has down to you? Right now, you should be begging for mercy human, because in one more punch I'll have your head! And if you do beg for your pitiful life on your hands and knees I may be lenient!" She says as you continue to glare at her.
"How about you shut the hell up and try something, unless you're scared that is? And I don't know who the hell you are, because you're not Adira and since I know that's true I'll just have to beat some answers out of you!"
"Follow your own advice, human!" She yells drawing her own sword, which seems to be twice the size of yours and lunges at you.
You quickly direct your ki through your veins, healing the few of your serious injuries and the rest towards the Kyojin. You quickly dodge her lunge and attack her at a blind spot, which she blocks. She jumps away pushing you backwards, but you keep your balance as she lunges at you once more. Your swords clash against each other and creating small sparks jumping from in between. You grind your teeth together forcefully trying to hold the Kyojin up against hers, that seems weighty, but to your disadvantage she wields it too well. Se leans in slightly smirking at you.
"So, human, I hear you're here with that half breed now... Oh what was his name? You know don't you?" She asks as you permanent scow seems to set upon your face. "Oh, yes! Inuyasha! Hmm, that guy so you're into the 3nd rate, low-life, half breed type now? Huh, Mi-Do-Ri-Ko? Kind of ironic, right?" She says overly pronouncing the priestess's name.
"Shut the fuck up!" You yell crossly at the blonde who smiles in reply.
"But, I'm only trying to make conversion, ! And really I also thought you should know this! Do you remember when you saw Inuyasha with Kikyo at the hot springs before? I heard and I saw actually that they were really deciding to be together once more again! Do you believe Inuyasha was lying to you all this time?" She says smiling as your eyes widen and your mind goes elsewhere.
"How do you-!" Before you can finish your sentence you feel your sword flying out of your hands and back into the castle.
"Most important, lesson number one, human, never lose concentration in battle and especially on the enemy!" She says and you turn back towards her and duck just in time to dodge her punch.
Crouching to the ground you lay your hands palm fat on the ground and directing your ki into your hands into the dirt below. 'Hopefully this'll work!' You think to yourself as you watch vines protrude from the ground and wrap around the girl's body and quickly wrapping around her whole body, in a mummy-like wrap.
You stand and give the wrapped girl a wary glance before sprinting off back towards the castle. 'Hopefully this'll work! If it doesn't? Well, hopefully it'll work...' You muse inwardly as you sprint back towards the crumbling castle.
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