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Chapter 29
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.
Jumping up through the hole in the castle wall where you were thrown out you frantically look around for your sword. Once you spot it you glance back at the blonde to see her breaking out of the vine wrap you put her in. You then quickly run to your sword and pull it out from the wall I was thrown into.
"You may have gotten through this far, human, but now I'm serious!" The blonde yells entering through the broken castle wall. You get into your fighting dance.
"Oh? You looked pretty serious before!" You reply. 'If it worked in the cave it should work again... Hopefully it will work again...' You think to yourself as flames slowly appear on the right side of your sword.
"A fire attack, huh?" You hear the fair-haired girl mutter getting into a stance as you raise your sword.
"Hakumei-kaen!" You yell as you bring the kyojin crashing down onto the castle's surface.
Fire emits from your sword's edge moving as fast as any other wild fire and as fast as it moved it slowly burned itself out. A bead of sweat rolls down the side of your face as you see the damage your attack has made. Leaving burn marks on the castle floor in it's' wake and only itself out at the blonde opponent's feet. 'Shit! What the hell was that?! Maybe I can try-' You suddenly hear distant laugh echo across the room and look up to see the blonde has disappeared. 'Where did she-' Suddenly cutting your thought off a hard uppercut punch lands below your chin and from the impact your sent flying into the corner wall.
Aching pain floods throughout your body from your neck and down your spine as you slide to floor. Laughter floods throughout the room as you make attempts to get back up again.
"And I thought this would have been a decent fight for a minute, but you can't even land an attack!" The blonde laughs as she continues to approach. "But, it seems you haven't gotten to my level yet, oh well!" You then finally get to your feet with the support of your sword just in time to see the girl disappear once again.
'I know she didn't just disappear into nothing... She's just going to punch me over and over again til' I wither away and die...' You think to yourself frantically glancing around. 'She's just too fast... Like almost Sesshoumaru's type of speed... Almost... But, I need a way to compete with her speed or I'm going to be beaten to death!' Suddenly a hard kick to your back throws you forward and onto your knees.
"Why are you just standing there? Scared to death? Accepting your fate? Well, either way this makes my job easier!" You hear as the girl remains invisible.
Scowling to yourself in pain, you continue to come up with a way to beat the girl. 'Speed, speed, speed... What can I do to slow her down?! Even if I slow her down I couldn't fight her then! It needs to be one big attack, but I still don't have a lot of energy! But, still something to compete with her speed... And effective enough to make her faint...' You think as you push yourself up with the help of the Kyojin. 'The Kyojin... Speed... Hakumei Kaen... Yes! That's it!!' You yell inwardly.
Holding your sword out in front of you, you levitate the tip of the sword high above the ground and watch as the majority of the rest of your ki floods into it, making it glow a (color of your ki) color. To your favor you notice sparks popping up from the ground below it.
"What's this? Planning on attacking again? Take your best shot because this is your last chance, human!" The voice yells, from what seems in every direction around you.
You slightly raise your sword and forcefully let it plummet down to the crackling Earth below. 'And I'll call this new attack...'
"Raiden Shikei!!" You yell as the Kyojin meets with the ground below, passing piercing the surface.
Large sparks emit from the ground and a great ball of what seemed to look like your ki jumped off the ground, and like light traveling from mirror to mirror, it bounced from wall to wall, brightening up the room. With a large bang it stops hitting its invisible target in the back as a bright light engulfs the room. When the light fades away you see the girl drop to the ground from positioned on the wall, to a shaking crumpled position on the floor.
Watching the girl warily you remove your sword from the ground and slowly sheath it. 'I guess... I beat her...' You muse inwardly. A rush quickly runs throughout your body and you feel your legs tremble and give way under you. Falling onto your hands you quickly push yourself into a position of sitting against the wall. 'It's good that I stopped her from killing me, but how the hell am I suppose to get out of here?! I'm almost close to a paralyzed person in this state...' You think to yourself as you try and control your breathing rate. 'Well, this place held up during our fight, maybe it can stand a little longer when the feeling in my legs come back...' You think remembering the current state of the castle.
Glancing around the room, you notice Adira slowly moving from her position from the ground and rubbing her head. 'Shit!! She shouldn't be recovering that fast!! This- this crappy little castle is going to be my grave! And I can't believe I'm still a virgin!! I'm going to die a virgin!! After all this! I should have never-' Your thoughts come to a halt as you notice the girl standing in front of you, staring down at you expressionlessly. Without a word she pulls you up by the arm, which she slings over her shoulder and quickly starts to walk you to the hole in the wall and out of the castle.
Stepping into the forest she drops you at the base of the tree leaving you in a sitting position leaning against the tree. Bemused by her deeds you open your mouth to say something, but only to be quickly cut off.
"Don't get used to that, human, it will never happen again! I only did it this time because, you are a suitable opponent and are to make a good rival for me... Once more..." She says glaring down at you, before quickly turning on her heel and walking away.
"Wait a minute! What happened to the Adira you were before you tried to kill me?!" You ask frowning and sitting limp turning to face her. The girl stops and turns around.
"That girl you saw before, you will never see again... She was just another version of me without memories... Kind of like the way you are now... A hopeless idiot, perhaps?" The blonde answers frowning back. "You may have gone this far, but next time you won't be so lucky priestess!" The blonde says walking away.
"Geez, there's going to be a next time? Hopefully, she'll just put me out of my misery then!" You mutter, shifting against the tree and moving your aching body. "Got damn it!"
Despite the horrible turn of events earlier, the sun is still seen shining through the cracks of the leaves above. You quickly tread down the forest path in hopes of finding Sesshoumaru... After a long, maybe 20 minute wait you regained some of your energy back and soon you were back on your way, still aching though... As soon as you take your next step the ground starts to tremor causing you take support on a tree. Holding tightly onto the tree you hear loud, earth shredding rumble and suddenly a bright light floods the area making you quickly shut your eyes.
Just as soon the flash fades and you open your eyes and look up to see a flock of birds hurriedly flying into the opposite direction you were heading. 'Hn that must mean I'm going the right way then... Hopefully...' You think to yourself as the quake slowly calms down. Unlatching yourself from the tree you quickly continue back down the path in a cautious jog. Becoming more aware of the area around you, you notice a weak ki enter the area to your right and hidden forest lush. Just as soon as you start to pick up your pace you notice the holder of the weak ki quickly moving toward you quickly and just in time you stop as a small, sharp, shiny object flies right pass your head and right into a tree beside you. Glancing toward the dagger you slowly turn toward the owner who's stepping out from behind a tree.
"So you are still alive? Maybe I underestimated you... And maybe you're just lucky..." The golden haired cat demon sneers, picking out another dagger from the pouch on her side.
"Ditto to you, princess, and right now I don't have time to play, I'm busy!" You reply to the cat demon and start to walk away.
"Do not walk away from me, human!" Sansuki yells and throws more daggers in your path.
"What do you want now?" You ask snappily turning back toward her. You notice the limp in her step as she starts to walk toward you.
"To give you a final warning, of course! Stay away from Lord Sesshoumaru or else!" She yells pulling out more daggers.
"I should have guessed!" You reply dodging more of her daggers. "If you're so sure he was with you and he's denying it, why aren't you trying to kill him?" You ask irritably.
The cat demon then starts to growl and flex her claws and just as she starts to pounce she falls to the ground clutching her shoulder. Taking a step forward you cringe as you notice the girl cough up blood before you. Getting closer to the girl you notice her harsh panting and wounded shoulder, which suddenly turns your irritation into sympathy.
"Are, um, are you ok?" You ask the cat demon kneeling down beside her.
"Get away from me!!" She cries slashing her claws towards you. Moving out of the way of her claws you stand.
"It's obvious you're in no condition fight me, but if you'd let me I can help-"
"I do not need your help, if any at all!" She cuts in and grabs her mouth, starting to cough up more and more blood. "And if you were to help me, I'd just have a better opportunity to kill you, which would be you at fault... You seem to be a very foolish person, human..." She says sneering and licking her bloodied lips. "To think Lord Sesshoumaru chose such a naïve human as you... This may even change my outlook on life..."
"Well, you're not all too Einstein either, princess..." You mutter turning your back on the cat demon and starting to walk away.
"Human, wait!" You hear Sansuki say behind you. "You're walking away from valuable information that may help you in the future! The human race may be in danger!" Sansuki yells and you quickly turn.
"Why would you give a damn about me or the human race? You seem to be my worst self-proclaimed murderer yet!" You sneer. "Well, maybe not worst there was that hyena guy..." You mutter looking up towards the sky.
"You're right, I don't give a damn about you or the human race, but this information really is important, it involves Sesshoumaru also and even from what you may think I-"
"Alright, I'm listening! How does this information involve Sesshoumaru?"
"I'll get to that later, you won't understand if I tell you now." She says and you nod for her to go on. "Last week there was a child born in the castle, it was the child of the heir of the highest ranking cat demon and the person who may or may not be posing as the lord of the western lands. Soon after the cat demon was confronted by the imposter with her child and was almost murdered, the child was taken from the cat demon and was left as you see she is now." She ends rubbing her hands through the dirt.
"You might as well have told that story in first person..." You mutter looking at the girl irritably.
"Yes and the reason I've told you this is because I know about your history with the late Naraku. The person that may be the imposter of Lord Sesshoumaru may have ties with him from what I know about him..." She says.
"By any chance, was his name Kurayami? Or, um, did he tell you his name?"
"Yes, it was, you've met him before?"
"Yeah, long story... And why would he want your baby?" You ask her.
"That's the part I don't know about and I want you to figure out, for yourself... Even though I may seem weak, do not underestimate my race, priestess!"
"Right, so you're just going to wait around and hire someone else, while someone has kidnapped your newborn baby and doing hell knows what to it?" You ask the girl frowning.
"That is none of your business and even if I tried it would be useless, as I said before I am the highest ranking cat demon and if this imposter has gotten this far, what the hell can I do?!" She cries.
"So, you're expecting me to be able to do something about it? Desperation has made you go insane, princess!" You snap folding your arms.
"I know what I'm doing when I'm asking you; you're the main person who's going to be affected by this next to Lord Sesshoumaru... And I know I can't ask him, of course! But, really you will do this. To help a person who has tried to kill you multiple times, you're very sympathetic, in almost a bad way, so why wouldn't you want to help a kidnapped child find its way home? And really would you just sit back and listen if you know Lord Sesshoumaru could be hurt or in danger?"
"... " Looking away from the girl you roll your eyes annoyed. "If you're so sure I'd try, then how would I go about doing that?"
"Well, really, that's for you to decide, I'm just giving you the information! And lastly, this guy disguising himself as Lord Sesshoumaru is very powerful and you especially need to be careful around him. I'm sure Lord Sesshoumaru can hold his own and more around him, but one thing you should look out for is this guy's special technique of planting something in his opponent's body and setting it off and spreading poison throughout the opponent's body that slowly destroys one organ at a time... Then causes a bright white light when he initiates the attack... Which he has performed on me..." The cat demon says clutching her shoulder.
"Poison? Do you know if there's an antidote to it?"
"I don't know about that either... That's another reason why I can't do anything about it..." She answers sitting on her knees.
"So, if you don't find an antidote, what's going to happen to your baby?" You ask approaching her slowly.
"I do not know that either, so stop asking stupid questions!"
"Well, you have a pack, right? Can't they help you any?" You ask stopping a few feet away from her.
"I can not return to my pack like this and without my child, and desperation is the reason I'm asking you, priestess!" She says openly irritated with your questions and glaring up at you.
"But, if you can't get your pack's help and you don't want mine, then how will you survive this way?" You ask kneeling down beside her.
"Is not a matter of how..." She replies looking up at you seriously. "But, you shouldn't worry about me now it's your life, Lord Sesshoumaru and your own race you should be concerned about!" She says forcing herself to stand up.
"But-"
"Just hurry, up and go already, Lord Sesshoumaru needs you and from good intuition, right now! Hurry up and go to him, before I change my mind and kill you!!" She yells limping toward a tree and getting support on it.
"But, what about you?!" You ask the cat demon indignantly, standing up.
"My future has already been decided for better or for worth... Now hurry, I think the imposter's special technique was performed a few minutes ago, and I'm sure whoever they are, they will need your help!" She says glaring at you.
"Alright..." You reply nodding. "But, don't just stand here and waste away!" You say turning around and walking away.
"Whatever! Good luck, priestess!"
"I should be saying the same thing to you, princess!" You say back turning you walk into a run.
'Hopefully it wasn't Sesshoumaru that was hit by that poison technique... ' You mutter inwardly to yourself as a bead of sweat slides down your forehead. '...And if Sansuki dies who's going to take care of her baby if we get it back...'
Running farther down the path, your sprint slows down to walk as you notice someone leaning on a tree far away from you. 'That could be Sesshoumaru's imposter... Kurayami...' You think to yourself as you continue to approach warily. 'No... That has to be someone else, what would he be doing sitting around out here...' You continue to walk closer and now getting a better view of the loiterer. 'Wait... That's Sesshoumaru!!'
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Raiden Shikei- Another one of the Kyojin's attacks, which means translates as Thunder and Lightning Capital Punishment.
Alright, another chapter full of adventure, action and drama completed! I hoped you enjoyed!
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