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Kagome actually slept that night.
She dreampt of Inuyasha.
She was lost in a deep mist, even the sun could not break the mist apart, and she was walking through a forrest.
Suddenly she was in front of the god tree, and inuyasha was like she had never been there.
He was asleep, the vines wrapped around him, nearly covering him whole.
When she approached him, he opened his golden orbs and looked at her with love.
"Kagome, i can feel that you are close." he whispered.
A light shone bightly in her eyes, and then it was Sesshomaru that was bound by the holy arrow.
"Run, Kagome. This place is not safe." Sesshomaru whispered, looking at her with an unexplainable mix of emotions.
Then the light flashed and the body before her was Inuyasha's father.
"My sons only wish for your safety. If you will, i will give you protection." he stated.
Kagome bowed, there was nothing that she could say.
Suddenly the three seperate beings were one.
He had long flowing white hair, molten gold eyes, hanyou ears, and black feather wings.
"Kagome, you are our last hope." they whispered in unison before she startled herself awake.
then, she sensed someone in her room.
She peered through the darkness toward the far corner of the room and caught sight of a dark shadow.
She waited for awhile, forcing herself to calm down, to breathe normally.
When she was about to fall asleep again, her eyes partially open, the figure moved into the moonlight shining throught the window.
She watched as Damien brushed his hand along her jaw, down toward her throat, then back up to brush over the middle of her forehead between her brows.
Then she felt a tingling, burning, sensation and she forced herself to ignore it.
A light green glow emanated from his palm, and she felt warm, despite the coldness of the night.
She immediately fell into a deep sleep.
Picking her up, Damien felt that she was too light.
She weighed next to nothing.
She was like porcelain.
He had sensed her troubled dreams on his nightly walk through the castle and had run to her room. he watched her startle awakening, and watched her seek him out in the darkness, then, as she fell back asleep he decided that she would not have anymore of those dreams again.
He carried her to his rooms, he knew that she would probably be furious at him for it, but it was for her safety.
when Kagome woke again, she was not alone.
Her eyes widened in surprise when she saw the sleeping form of damien next to her.
His arm was wrapped around her waist loosely, it emanated warmth and a ceartain sense of comfort.
She couldn't help it when she snuggled deeper into the pillows and fell into a light sleep.
He felt her stir, and stayed still.
he wanted to shout for joy when she snuggled against him.
Miroku was the only thing awake this night.
He tiptoed through the castle from the slave quarters toward the hall of maidens
When he arrived there, he hid himself in the shadows as he watched Damien carry Kagome from her room.
following them silently, he caught where damien's room was.
Sneaking by the door after it closed, he ran silently through the castle toward his room.
Kouga sat at the gates of the city, huddled against the cold in the midst of a circle of large blazes, surrounded by what was left of his wolf pack.
When he had reached the gates of the city, he had called for the last of his allies.
Shippou arrived first, he was as tall as Sesshomaru used to be, and the fox had adopted Inuyasha's ears. Looking at the tall demon, you would have never guessed that he was once doll sized.
He had become a master illusionist over the centuries, making his foxfire evolve into a blazing inferno.
He sat down across from Kouga, next to one of the larger fires and began to feed it with his flame, making all of the fires glow light blue then fade back to their original red, Kouga marked a large difference in temperature.
Soon Kirara arrived, carrying the last descendant of Sango on her back.
This girl was sango's incarnation, you wouldn't know that 1000 years of descendants were in her. The battered Hiracotsu was the same that the first had used.
She sat down beside Shippou, Kirara curling up in the fox's lap.
Kagura appeared next.
Kouga had gotten over his hate of her, and felt no more resentment for the past.
Kagura hadn't aged at all, she was still as she was when Naraku still roamed the earth.
Kagura knew Naraku's magic, and was one of the first leaders of the resistance, thousands of demons and humans constantly fighting with damien's dead army.
Then Kanna stepped from the shadows, her white skin and clothes shone in the darkness, her mirror did not glint in the fires, but stayed dark.
When she sat down, they began.
"Kanna, what have you seen of the future?" Kagura asked.
"I see..."Kanna looked into the mirror..."...I see, Damien has chosen his bride! It is Kagome of the wolf tribe of the west!"
"Why? Why did he choose her?" Kouga demanded, but Kanna ignored him and continued.
"I see a crossroads ahead. There is only one path that is clear: If Kagome joins the sacred jewel this world will end." Kanna closed her eyes and shook her head.
"Kanna, will it destroy Damien as well?" Kouga asked, his already hoarse voice choked.
"Ai."
Kagome stared through the shifting leaves to the distant sky.
She caught sight of Sesshomaru's bloody boa fluttering in the wind, toward her and away from the scene of the battle.
She saw the four lines of destructive flames marking Tetsuaiga's path toward her.
She dove out of the way of one of the lines, and barely missed another in the process.
She grabbed a bow and quiver of arrows that was laying nearby and ran toward the scene.
a flash of light that made all else dissappear, then she was blown back into a tree as the force of the explosion hit her.
When she got bck to her feet, she raced toward the scene.
She did not notice the total abscence of sound.
When she arrived at the god tree, she was horrified.
Instead of Inuyasha and Sesshomaru being turned into stone, they were lying fifteen feet from each other, breathing shallowly and bleeding from multiple wounds.
She spared a glance at Damien, who was stone now.
She felt for Sesshomaru's pulse and found none as he choked and stopped breathing.
She heard Inuyasha slightly coughing as well, and she ran to him, propping his head up in her lap.
He slowly stopped breathing, and she realized that she was crying.
Evil, mocking laughter filled her ears, and she glared up at Naraku.
She drew her arrow from the quiver and knocked it.
Firing it at Naraku, it glowed with a shining blue light.
Suddenly, the arrow swerved and hit Damien's statue.
A light flashed and she saw, much to her horror, that damien was alive!
He reached toward her and his arm extended horridly.
She didn't have time to even scream before his hand went through her throat.
She listened as Naraku's laughter was cut short, then there was no sound, no light, nothing, only the dark.
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Okay, No, it's not Gargoyles. (For all of you people just arriving, i'm talking about the challenge in the first chappie to find out what show i mimicked.)
Further chapter arriving soon, i am already typing on the next one.
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