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A Lady Knight's Tale 2

"Sango!" Miroku ran toward the sound of Sango's voice. Her scream made him feel sick to the pit of his stomach with worry for her. It was like a nightmare come true. When he reached the end of the corridor, there was no sign of her anywhere, making him even more upset. Looking around, he noticed a small hole on the floor, just enough for a person to fit in. Without another thought Miroku jumped in.

Sango landed ungracefully on her behind, mostly unhurt. She hadn't meant to scream out so loudly...or sound so terrified, but it felt like someone or something had grabbed her leg and dragged her into the hole. She was probably justified for shrieking like that, and scaring the wits out of Sir Monk, oh well.

"Sir Monk! I'm fine! Come down here, will you-- " Sango shouted in the direction she had come.

A whizzing sound told her that he had come after her. Miroku landed on his feet perfectly, despite the heavy armor. Seeing her safe, he sighed in relief. "Sir Sango! Please be more careful next time!" he said, unable to hide the worry in his voice.

She rolled her eyes at his words. "It looks like there's a passageway, we might find the pile of remains after all." Sango said as he felt her way around. Both of them had lost their torches, but the surroundings were dimly lit somehow.

Sango suddenly stopped in her tracks.

"What is it?" Miroku whispered, noting the sudden change.

The lady knight shook her head and pointed. A large thing appeared to be moving in the barely lit room a few meters away from them. It was a very large creature, humanoid in shape but over fifty feet tall. Only, it was missing its head. Fortunately it didn't notice them and was rummaging through the pile of remains at its feet, skulls were everywhere. The two of them gaped at the thing. It was huge.

Sango pulled Miroku away to a safe distance.

"What do we do now?" Sango whispered, one could not be too careful around these things.

The other knight frowned. This was going to be difficult.

"One of us will distract him while the other one grabs the skulls. Is that agreeable?" he asked. Miroku actually didn't want to go through with such a risky plan. After all, they had never seem the thing in action before and they could only guess how fast it could move. But they didn't have time for anything else right now. It would have to do.

"Ok. I'll distract him. You get the skulls" Sango said. "Your armor is too heavy for running around."

Miroku nodded reluctantly. He just hoped that they would get out of this alive. "Good luck." he said.

"You too."

"Hey! Over here!" Sango yelled at the headless creature. It immediately turned toward her. Too bad she couldn't use Hiraikotsu, it would most likely anger the beast. She would just have to make it chase her around. Piece of cake.

It howled furiously tearing through the walls and rocks. Including the one Sango was standing on. She jumped through the boulders and tried to change her position as quickly as possible. It became apparent that the places she could run to were quickly being reduced to pebbles and dust. She didn't even dare imagine the consequences should it catch up with her.

Sango wondered if Sir Monk was through getting the skulls yet. It was getting more and more difficult to sustain the quick movements and avoiding the monster's attacks. A quick glance told her he got them. Already he was frantically waving at her to leave.

Distracted for a moment, she made wrong move. It was barely noticeable but it allowed her to get hit by a large rock, effectively knocking her unconscious.

Sango woke up in her room in the inn. How did she get here? The last thing she remembered was that a very big headless creature was after her and she got hit on the head with a rock. She sat up and noticed Sir Monk asleep on the floor across her bed. It was probably him who rescued her then, drat, she owed him one. On the table beside her bed was a skull.

She walked over to the young man whose face was still hidden in his cowl. This time, she didn't even attempt to take a look at his face. She owed him that at least, if he didn't want her to see his face, so be it. Instead Sango knelt beside him and shook him gently.

"Sir Monk..." she whispered

Miroku opened his eyes slowly to the sound of her voice, ah she was awake.

"Sir Sango...how do you feel?" he asked, straightening up from his position.

"I'm fine. I guess I owe you one." she said reluctantly "What happened?"

"You got hit on the head with a rock and fell, so I just grabbed you and made a run for it." Miroku said. It was a very abbreviated version though, Miroku didn't think Sango would like to hear the full one. Miroku actually had to fight the beast to get to her and right now, he was more injured than he would like to admit.

Sango looked at him curiously. Oh well. "I thank you then, Sir, I shall find a way to repay you." she said.

Miroku sighed tiredly. Just come back with me, Sango. I'll give up everything for you, he wanted to say. But no...he couldn't, not now anyway. He was going to prove he loved her even if it killed him.

"It matters not. See you tomorrow morning." he said as he rose and walked towards the door. "By the way, Sir Sango. We were the only ones who passed that last test. The rest of them got killed, injured or simply ran away." He smiled grimly. "The final decision will be made tomorrow by a battle between the two of us. So I suggest you keep your sentiments to yourself." he finished.

Sango frowned as he closed the door behind him. The man was so strange.

Miroku ran a hand through his hair as he walked to his inn. He left out one very important detail about the match tomorrow.

It was a match to the death.

Author's Notes: Gomen, gomen! I've just been so busy lately! Hope you guys are still reading. ^_^ Waah...poor Miroku. I promise the next chapter will be much waffier. Ah, the previous chapters lacked it so much. ^_^

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