REVIEWS, REVIEWS, REVI- hack, cough… oh yeah, I'm sick…

Disclaimer - (Well, things have gotten a little out of hand. You see, this isn't just a battle anymore, its full-fledged war. And to think, it all started with a frying pan person speaking throws a frying pan at KungPowKitty ow!)

Shard-is tied to a chair, being interrogated by boys

Kamiko-Zephuru- Now, Shard, you know how this works. You've seen James Bond movies. Tell us where the girls have Felix, or motions to Miroku be sucked up!

Shippou- That's a little harsh, don't you think?

Sota- Yeah.

Inuyasha- klonks boys in the head

Shard- I will never talk! Never! No matter what you do, I won't betray my fel-

Stalking Chicken-is also tied to a chair. Has, um, well, an insane look on her face. Interrupts Shard I need your phone number! I need your address! I need to know which window is yours! I need to know where you are at 7:00 P.M. on Tuesdays!

Shard- She, on the other hand…

meanwhile

Kagura and Sango- LET US OUT!!!!! bang hands against wooden door, looking fearfully over their shoulders

Felix- from behind them somewhere in the room Come back! I want to play! Bwa hahahahahaha!

Kagome- from other side of door If you kill him, we won't be able to trade him for Shard or StalkingChicken!

Kagura, Sango, and Sangarouka (next to Kagome)- WHO CARES!?

Kagome- All right, Sangarouka, I know that this is hard knowing your former soul-bearer is being tortured, but for goodness sake, would you please-

Sangarouka- What are you talking about? I just want the stupid pyromaniac in there to shut up!!!!

Kaede- I agree!

KungPowKitty- Oh, for pete's sake! barges through door, Sango and Kagura rush out, close door behind them

Felix- What makes you think you can take me on?

KungPowKitty- takes out frying pan This!

(sry about the previous chapter being so short. I shall say that for this chapter, go to the otaku . Com , launch the jukebox, and turn it to Dragon boy from spirited away)

CHAPTER 21 - Hurricane Zephuru : Part One : The Storm

Kagome could feel the evil demonic aura growing from not only the boy before her, but also from the clouds up above. "This is not good…"

Miroku was continuously attempting to shatter the barrier with sutras and his staff (he takes it with him every where) , but to no avail.

"Damn it, what's going on?!" Inuyasha yelled to no one in particular.

Shippou gripped onto the fearful Kagome with all of his might. Suddenly, the shard around his neck felt warm. He looked down to see it giving off an aura of its own, and noticed that everyone else's orb shards were engulfed in a small sphere of light.

He was not the only one who noticed this. Kagome had looked around to make sure that her orb was not the only one glowing, and then was shocked by the now colored aura Zephuru was giving off. It was a mix of silver, black, and red, all centered around his heart. "That's it… Inuyasha, the orb of wind has merged with his heart! That's where you have to hit him!"

"Annoying girl." Zephuru pointed his staff to Kagome, and wind burst out and hit her in the stomach. She smacked against the barrier, and fell to the ground unconscious. "Kagome!" Inuyasha and the rest yelled, and ran over to her. Zephuru pointed his staff at the rest of the crew (excluding Inuyasha), and they hit the barrier, and came back down to the ground asleep.

"Why you…!" Inuyasha growled in a rage. He was completely unaware that the battle kimono that came as a perk with his shard had melted onto his body, and the Tetsusaiga appeared on his waist.

"This is not their battle, so they have no reason to be present during it. Do not worry, they are not hurt. Only sleeping." he eyed the enraged hanyou before him. "I suppose you would like an explanation, hmm?'

"Wouldn't hurt…"

"Fine. The body you see before you is in fact not I, but the shell of the original holder of the wind orb, Kamiko. Ituchi, the great distributor of the orbs, entrusted that inferior being with the orb, and I could not take it. I am a demon of the wind, why should I not have received it? But no matter, I despised the boy from that time on. Eventually, I tricked him into letting my soul merge with his body, so that he could 'Master the power of the winds.' Well, he has mastered it, or more precisely, I have become the master within his body."

"The maiden behind you is the holder of the orb of souls, and that such power could give such strength to defeat any adversary this world could summon. But I knew for a long time before I knew she possessed it that I first had to kill you, Inuyasha."

"What?!"

"My father of many generations ago wrote that in the age of the Typhoon, his forbearer must kill 'The hanyou Inuyasha, Lord of Beasts and Lover of Mortals'. Only when I do that may I claim the orb for my family, and shall be given the strength of all of the forbearers before me."

"Wait, what is your family name?" 'Maybe that will give some insight on why his great-great whatever grandfather wanted me dead…'

""My father of many times ago gave his name as his families' once his first son was born. My full name is Zephuru Kouga."

(Weren't expecting that, were you?!?!?!?!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!)

"KOUGA?!?!?! That bastard of a wolf…" 'He still didn't give up on my Kagome did he? Woah, glad I didn't say that out loud…'

"You know of him? Hmm, no matter, I shall destroy you fast. But first…" Zephuru pointed his staff skyward, and the storm clouds above exploded in size. Hail, rain, lightening, and wind shot from the skies, and the windows of nearby windows shattered instantly. 'Oh shit…'

- -Place change- - (there is going to be a lot of these to add to the effect of what just happened, so take this time to get a Popsicle or something real quick)

"Now, as we look at the Doppler radar, we can see sunny skies at last in Tokyo…" The weather man said plainly. But on the mapped screen, he suddenly saw a red spot. "Hmm, that must be a false return." But in a second, what took the shape of a hurricane blasted outward from the speck, and soon the entire screen was engulfed in red. "Oh Kami…"

"MIDUZO!!" One of the news anchors yelled, right before the wall was blown apart.

- - (all of these are going to be place changes, so I'll just say where the change is to) Taipei, Taiwan - -

"Grandpa, how long do we have to stay down here in this thing?" Sota asked again. The concrete room insulated the body heat of all of the people in there, so it felt warmer then Arizona in July at the moment.

A monstrous crash was heard above. "What the?" Sota hurried up the stairs, and opened the shrine's cellar door. "No Sota, come back!"

Sota popped his head out of the door, and saw that there was no more shrine. It was completely gone, along with as far as what he could see, a straight line of destruction.

But he heard it. Sota whirled around, and saw a massive tornado moving away from him. "Holy…!"

Hail was knocking him in the head, but it was not large enough for him to be hurt much.

The boy turned where he was again to see a few miles away the tallest building in the world, the Taipei 101, swaying in the wind. Up above it, a hook developed, and a then a funnel to tornado in the blink of an eye. The huge pagoda building was destroyed.

Sota's eyes widened in horror, and he slammed back down the door, and ran to his grandfather.

- -Sydney, Australia- -

"Mum, this is boring." a young boy whispered into his mother's ear. They were at the Sydney Opera house, listening to one of her favorite performances. "I know honey, but tonight, I promise that you can play a lot of video games, m' kay?"

"Fine."

The microphone system suddenly went out. Everyone in the audience looked around questionably towards the stage or at each other, while the opera singer did what her instinct told her; keep singing. But then the roll of thunder was heard. Then another, and another, and then a crash of lightning so loud that the boy jumped into his mother's arms. "Oh my god, let's get out of here!!" she ran for the exit sign, being deafened by the cracks of thunder.

She burst open the door with her son in her arms, and screamed. Thunder bolts were electrocuting everything that was above 15 feet high. Already the Sydney Bridge was being zapped at least a dozen times per second.

She bolted for her car, dumped her child in the passenger seat, and jumped into her seat. She turned on the ignition, and sped straight out of the parking lot. "Mum, why didn't you buckle up?"

"Because mummy is too scared right now to think about it."

She swerved her car all over the street to avoid the incoming bolts of electricity, and drove her way up the hill to get to the highway. At least then she could get a clean shot to the house.

But on top of the hill, her eyes glazed over in fear.

Her son yelped.

The entire city of Sydney was being electrocuted, when suddenly a bolt at least a mile wide plummeted down to the closest sky scraper, and it exploded.

- - Giza, Egypt - -

"Over in that direction are the great pyramids of Giza, each one a grave marker for a powerful pharaoh. We shall be visiting them tomorrow after seeing the Sphinx." The tour guide said, pointing off into the distance towards the great triangular structures. The open air tour bus was filled with foreign tourists, and it was just another lazy evening. He stifled a yawn.

A chill swept through the air faster than he could blink, and cloud cover followed immediately afterward. "What in the-"

A white puff melted on his hand. He didn't know what to say. He had always heard of snow, but living in Egypt wasn't exactly the winter wonderland.

The tour guide looked off into the distance towards downtown, and saw a sheet of white rapidly approaching him. "Gizny!" he yelled to the bus driver. "Quick, go to the pyramids!"

"Are you kiddin'?! They're a half mile away!"

The tour guide ran to the front of the bus, grabbed onto Gizny's head, and turned it to face the sheet of white. "Drive, damn it!"

He put the petal to the metal.

But within thirty seconds of putting on the gas, the blizzard swept over them, and it was snowing an inch per minute, and speeding up.

"Don't follow the speed limit, get our asses over there, now!!!!" the tour guide stomped his foot onto the gas pedal, and the bus bolted to the pyramids. The tourists shivered in the cold, and a little Chinese girl suddenly shrieked.

The tour guide whirled around right as the bus slammed into one of the pyramids, and he saw it.

What looked like ice sickles were falling from the sky, but each one was over 10 feet long and five feet wide. He could see in the distance down town being destroyed. "CLIMB!!!"

Everyone ran out of the bus, and began to scale the pyramids. The tour guide ran out of the bus, and turned around to tell his friend to take up the rear. But instead, "GIZNY, LOOK OUT!!"

But it was too late. A blade of ice fell straight through the bus drivers' body, and he was dead.

- - Cape Town, South Africa- -

"Mulalao, come over to dinner please."

"Just a sec…" The boy said, shooting another bad guy on his 007 game. His mother sighed, and father simply rolled his eyes. But they rolled out to the direction of the window. "Man, it certainly is blowing out there…"

"Hmm?" His wife walked over to the large slate of glass, and covered her ears when her son jeered about killing someone called Gold finger or something. "Hush…"

Her boy muted the volume, and ever so faintly could the whirl of wind be heard. "Wow, it really sounds violent outside…"

The roof suddenly blew straight off, and the windows exploded into a thousand pieces a split second before hand.

"OH MY GOD, MULALAO!!!! GET THE DOG AND HURRY DOWNSTAIRS!!!"

"WHAT'S GOING ON?!?!" her son yelled over the wind, being forced down to the ground from the gusts. His father picked up the little white lap dog from the ground. "WE DON'T KNOW, JUST HURRY!!!"

They ran. His mother was already in the basement, and his father was quick to follow. But Mulalao was about halfway there when he suddenly felt being pulled upward.

'An updraft…' his father thought, fear quenching every bit of him. He tossed the dog down the stairs, and ran back to get his son. The moment he touched him, he could feel himself being pulled skyward as well.

"OH NO YOU DON'T!!!" his wife screamed, grabbed onto the dog, and ran out and took hold of her husband's leg. Yet in a second, they were all twenty feet up in the air.

"BARK, BARK, BARK…"

"MOMMY!!!!"

- - Barcelona, Spain- -

"Oh no, I have to hurry…" Marta said to herself, pedaling her bicycle faster to get to the library. It was getting close to closing hour, and if she didn't get To kill a Mocking Bird, her name would be mud on her next report card.

"Phew…" she pedaled past the massive Cathedral of Barcelona, and into the public library. It was when the metal detectors went off did she realize that she just rode her bicycle into the library. "Oops."

"Could you park your bicycle outside, porvavor?"

"Ehh, no problem." she walked outside and put her two wheeled form of transportation in the bike rack, and heard a rushing sound. Marta turned around, and witnessed a hail clump the size of a mansion plopping down onto the library. Crunch.

The force of the blow shoved her backward into the windshield of a parked car. She looked skyward, and had her breath taken away. A shower of massive hail stones was falling down onto her home city.

Marta ran and unlocked her bicycle, jumped on, and pedaled as fast as she ever had. Behind and in front of her she could both see and hear the hail falling to the ground. She screamed, but didn't dare stop moving.

She turned a corner of the road, but the bike 'tripped' on a pot hole, and the Spanish girl fell to the ground. In a second, in the place she would have been if she hadn't fallen off her bike a hail boulder slammed into the pavement. "Okay, I have cheated death twice in the past minute."

She got up and turned around to get her bike, but another monstrous hail stone fell down and crushed it to oblivion. "Make that three times."

Marta heard another rushing sound from above her, and looked up. A hail stone was hurling down towards her.

"Oh, shit…" she ducked, and prayed for her life. The moment she thought that her soul was going bye-bye, she heard a crunch, but no pain. She opened her eyes, and looked up again. The two previous hailstones that fell had stopped the fall of the impending doom one. "You have got to be kidding me."

- - Sao Paulo, Brazil- -

"AND DON'T COME BACK!" the Bouncer yelled, throwing the drunken man out of the bar. The man got up, and staggered over to his car. "Heh, the whiskey here sucks anyway…"

He pushed the key of the car at the window, and thought to himself 'Get in there, damn it!' Oh yeah, he is so drunk.

A black cloud draped itself over the city, and he looked skywards. "Huh? Keh, whatever…" the man got inside his car, and turned on the ignition (Once he got the key in the slot) . He turned the car, got onto the street, and waited for the light to change to green.

'What's the sound… it's like… rustling sand…' the drunk peered through the wind shield, and lit his cigarette. At first, all he could see was black, but he came to his senses. "Hold it; storms come from the west to east, not the other way around…"

Considering he was facing west at the moment, he sat there and pondered about the anomaly for a second. But the darkness soon got a tint to it, desert orange. As his eyes focused farther, he could see a cloud of sand sweeping its way across the city. "HOLY SHIT!!!"

He turned his car around, and sped off away from the wall of orange. On the streets he could see people running for their lives or into buildings, hoping to get away from the sand of impending doom.

He didn't see the cyclist coming in the other direction.

His sports car slammed into a motor cyclist, and was thrown from his car. On the front part of the little automobile, he looked at the sand only a hundred yards away. He completely ignored the bleeding from his head, and his eyes filled with the tears of terror as the blanket of orange swept over him.

- - St. Louis (Missouri), Untied States- -

"Anne and John, it's a school night! You have to go to bed right now!"

"Mom, we're on the phone with a friend in New Orleans. Just a few more minutes, kay?" The girl twin said to her mom.

"If your dad weren't at a meeting in Vancouver right now, he would-"

"Yeah, okay mom. He would so kick our butt." John said in rebuttal, and turned his attention back to their friend on speaker phone. "You were saying Ariel?"

"Well, my parents were just one thei-" The line went dead.

"Huh?" Anne and John looked at each other, and then at their mother. She was looking wide eyed behind them. "You guys…" she pointed to the fish bowl on John's nightstand. The water was beginning to ripple, on its own.

Within seconds the room was shaking all about, and items were falling off of the dresser, the wall, and out of the book case.

"John, Is this an earthquake?"

"I know it seems like it but-" the teenage boy fell to the ground. "But there would be sounds like gun shots off in the distance, and the only thing I hear is…"

"A gurgle…?" Their mother said in astonishment. Anne ran out of the room, out of the house, climbed up her favorite tree, and jumped onto the roof. 'I should get a pretty good view from up here, considering our house is on a massive hill.'

Anne looked off into the distance as her mother and brother came outside. "Anne, look towards the Mississippi River!" John yelled.

She looked off to the river, but everything seemed fine.

"NO, OTHER WAY!"

His twin turned to face south, and her eyes widened. She now knew why the phone had gone dead. In first place, there were black clouds looming above and spitting lightning, but a massive storm surge was making its way UP the river.

"MOM, START THE CAR AND GET IN!"

"Huh?"

"JUST DO IT!" Her mother obeyed as Anne jumped onto the roof of the car, and held on. Just as John was opening the slide door, their mother sped off, and John gripped onto the car door handle.

"ANNE, WHERE DO I DRIVE TO?!"

"JUST HIGHER! HOWEVER POSSIBLE, WE HAVE TO GET HIGHER!!"

Their mother tore up the road, thanking god they her family had moved into a high area. She sped all of the way up the highest hill, turned off the car, and stepped out.

Anne jumped down from the top, and looked at the massive wall of water destroying the Gateway Arch as well as her home town. But as the water got closer, "Wait, where's John?!"

The two ran back to the hill's slope, and watched as their brother/ son sprinted up the road. The wall of water was only seconds away, and he would be swept away if he didn't get to the top.

In a last ounce of strength, he jumped at total of twenty feet up and onto the top of the hill. A second later, the water reached only a foot below the top of the hill.

"How the hell did I do that?"

"JOHN!"

"Sorry." The necklaces around his and his twin sister's necks began to glow.

- - back to Tokyo (that took long enough) (notice no time skip backwards they have been fighting this entire time Zephuru and Inuyasha) - -

"Damn…" Inuyasha cursed, wiping some blood away from his mouth. Zephuru had just sliced him on the cheek, and thus the strike was added to the plentiful collection Inuyasha now had on him.

Zephuru, being a wind demon, was far faster than Inuyasha (or Sesshomaru for that matter), and hadn't even been touched. "Getting tired, hanyou?"

"Bastard…"

"INUYASHA!!!" he heard someone yell. Both he and Zephuru looked up to see a boy with slightly green tinted hair penetrate the barrier, and land within.

- - - -- -- - - - -- -

CLIF HANGER, CLIMACTIC, SCARY, CONFUSING, RAMEN, AM I BAD?!?!?!?!?!?! OR WHAT?!?!?!?!??!

KungPowKitty - You bad, you bad, you bad, bad, bad… no eating here tonight, no eating here tonight, no, no, no eating here tonight, your on a DIET!!

Kamiko-Zephuru - Uhh, I think you have seen that movie one too many times.

KungPowKitty - SEA MONKEY HAS MY MONEY!!!!!