Hiya! (I always start my chappies like this……hopefully.)
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Stella: Okay, here goes… idonotowninuyasha. Done!
(Stella skips away, happily humming to herself. Soon, Inu Yasha enters the picture)
Inu Yasha:(sigh) What she meant was-
(barging in, running over him) I DO NOT OWN INU YASHA, AND SPEAKING OF WHICH, WHY DOES HE LOOK SO MAD? wonk OW! I SHALL wonk OW! REPORT FOR wonk OW! ABUSE…(idiot! that's not why it's there!) (ow! it isn't?) (whatever.)
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HOLD IT! I OWN STELLA AND TSUKIRO!
3. Down the well
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"She's here." Naraku stated, with a trademark smirk of satisfaction.
"Yes. I can feel her presence."
"Go. Remember what I told you to do, Tsukiro."
"Just a forest……..Yep, just like any other……. AURGH! WHAT AM I SAYING! I'M IN THE PAST! THE PAST!" Stella let out a sigh and sat down on her suitcase. "This is going to be harder then I thought."
FLASHBACK
Stella felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to see Korino, crying. "I…I'm so sorry….Oh, it must be so hard for you!" Korino hugged Stella, and just cried for a while.
Stella's cheeks were dry, her eyes mourning. "It's my fault." Korino froze for a second, stood up straight and stared hard into Stella's eyes. "You were little then. You didn't know."
Stella turned and sat down on the willow tree. Looking down the stream, she could see her face reflected on the water. Many told her that she resembled her mother, especially now that she was 13. "I was 8 'then', Korino! 8! I could have done something, couldn't I? But no, I was too scared to protect my mother." Stella stood up and faced Korino.
"I saw him, Korino. I had my powers then, too." She slowly took off her hair band, and her long front hair fell on her forehead. Stella brushed them away, and, in the middle of her forehead was a black crystal in the shape of a diamond. "I could have put my so called "Legendary Powers" to use on the most worthwhile thing, but I was scared of that strange man who broke down house, and searched through all the debris and didn't do so much as blink at the dead bodies. Heck, he smirked and swooped me up into the air. I think it was a plan to bring my mother out because when she did, he sneered at me and said, "Kukuku….look, little girl-your mistress is here to save you." then he dropped me; and you, Korino, caught me." Stella frowned slightly and sub-consciously stroked her jewel. "You know what? I never knew my mother could fly like that. He didn't know that he had used his target's daughter as bait, either." She stopped the stroking. "After the battle, he took my mother. He bothered to thank me, too." Stella wiped a tear that had fallen.
She still remembered him, in his white cloak, holding her unconscious mother. 'She must care a lot about her servants, to have flown out like that. My compliments to your efficiency.'
She wiped another. "I was just crying… didn't do a thing…How could I have been so stupid?" She gave up wiping. "Even after that… when grandmother confirmed that I had already inherited my powers from mother, everyone acted like mother was dead. Not like I acted any better, of course. And now, five years later, they want her back… Because my powers seem to be decreasing. They want her back because they think mother's taking the power of Lasmae back in her body. Nothing else matters to them. And I…. I just think…that's….that's……." Stella fell on her knees, sobbing. Korino kneeled down and took her in her arms. Rocking her back and forth, she repeated "Shh. It's okay… Everything's going to be fine…." Stella finally stopped crying. "That monster is going to regret everything-from betraying his friend a millennia ago to taking away mother and grandmother-I'm going to make sure of that".
END OF FLASHBACK
Of course, she just thought that she would jump in the well, climb out, poke around asking villagers for a half-demon lord, kill the idiot and come back with mother, forget the stupid power of Lasmae. Apparently, it was harder than that. For example-
"How am I supposed to get out of this freak'en forest?" there goes the example. "This stupid compass is not helping. How can I say it does when it's telling me North is that way?" Stella sat on her suitcase, pouting at the sun that was, according to her compass, rising from the North.
"Oh! I got it! Since it's pointing that way, what's North on the compass will be what's East!" Stella stood up and turned around, to make sure. "Yep! With this, I can-" the compass arrow turned to point the opposite way. "…..I don't believe this. I'm lost!"
"Are you lost?" Stella heard a boy's voice from behind her. She turned.
"Didn't you just hear me say so-" Stella stopped and stared. 'This guy is… Gorgeous! So this is where all the hot guys are… In the feudal age!'
"Hello? Are you okay?" Broke Stella from her trail of ridiculous thoughts (So that's why girls in the modern times are stuck with guys like Hojo…) and she looked up.
"Hi! I'm okay." Stella stammered. "Uhh…. My name's Stella Lasmae. What's yours?"
"Tsukiro."
Silence.
Stella put her compass back in her pocket- she never saw it pointing straight at Tsukiro. "So, umm… maybe you can help me get to the nearest village? I'm kinda lost right now." Stella said nervously, smiling what she hoped was a friendly smile. More like studdering smile. If that's possible.
"Sure, it's just that I need to-"
The last thing Stella saw was him shoving a crystal-shard looking thing towards her black crystal.
The Shiko No Tama was in pieces, though I wouldn't know why…
Korino opened her eyes. 'If only I could've gone with her.' She thought, 'I wouldn't be so worried right now.' "I hope Stella's doing alright. She can be so silly sometimes……" Korino murmured as she finally fell asleep.
Tsukiro easily caught Stella in his arms as she fell, unconscious.
"Hm." He muttered, "One'd think she'd know better, being 'the only heir to the Lasmae crystal.' " he watched as the black crystal turned white, than red. Before Tsukiro can even start to worry, however, the crystal turned black again.
"Huh." He frowned. "Must be a side effect."
"Argh….Naraku! Take that! Take that! And this! Hi-ya! Hi-YA! Hi-YA! Hi-"
'She's so.. silly.' Tsukiro thought in amusement. 'Her? Heir?' at that moment, Stella's eyes popped open.
"Hi-ya………… hiya?"
"Sounds like you're okay." Tsukiro chukled, letting Stella up. She blushed a little.
"My name's Stella Lasmae. What's yours?"
"I'm Tsukiro. From Lady Kaede's village. Where are you from?"
Stella stammered. "Well….I'm from…the…uh……the well. Yes, it's so comfy down there, you know?"
"………..You're the bone eater?"
"!"
Naraku smiled his nasty smile.
"So it is working. Perfect. Soon everything will be ready- and I will not make the same mistake I made last time."
Kagura almost gagged. Naraku got on her nerves!
"I don't see what's so perfect in a half-dead woman with a stupid crystal on her forhead!" She said.
Naraku's smile remained, though. He must be in a really good mood.
"It just keeps getting smaller, too. Didn't you want just the opposite?"
"Kagura," Naraku said with his back turned to her. "I've changed the plans a little."
"But what's the point of telling Sesshomaru about the girl, Stella?" Kagura wasn't about to give up. What was he planning? "I doubt that he even knows her!"
" Just tell him," Naraku smirked, "that his precious Rin has returned to him."
"Rin? But won't he wonder just who she is?"
"No. He'll be wondering just how I know who she is."
Stella sighed. "Anyway, how was I supposed to know the well was called 'the bone eater's well'?"
Stella and Tsukiro were walking through the forest carrying all her things. Make that Tsukiro carrying all the things and Stella skipping down the forest trail. He didn't seem to mind, though. His eyes twinkled.
"So you're from the future?"
"m-hm." Stella nodded.
"Do all girls in the future have those crystals on their foreheads?" Stella laughed lightly. "No that's just me. Or rather… it's a pure-blooded Lasmae thing."
"Excuse me?"
"A magical thing fading into myth."
"Magic crystal? Like the Shikon No Tama?"
"Huh?"
"Jewel of the four souls."
Stella thought for a moment. "Oh! Yeah! I remember that stone! Well, not really, because Lasmae crystals are 'born' with a pure-blooded newborn, the stone preferring girls. As the girl grows stronger, the crystal with her grows bigger, causing the mother or father's stone to get smaller. It doesn't have to be father/mother-child." She twirled happily and took a deep breath of the clean air before continuing. "If a girl was born after a son, the crystal might choose to transfer again to the girl from the son."
"Fascinating." Tsukiro replied with an amused look.
"If the transfer continued or the progress got faster, the girl would in the end have the complete Lasmae Jewel within herself, but that never really did happen." Stella stopped walking and turned to Tsukiro. "The next child was born before that."
Tsukiro put down her suitcases. "Was there never an attempt to extract the Jewel? I mean, wouldn't they have wanted to use the jewel for other things?" Stella walked over and sat on one of her suitcases and motioned for him to sit.
"That's a long story." Stella said quietly, looking dazed. "Grandmother protected us. At least, until The Young Lord came."
"who?"
Stella turned to look at Tsukiro, smiled, then stood up.
"IT'S A SECRET!" she yelled towards the sky. Birds flew, and she heard and echo within the woods, chorused with the complaints of the birds. She felt a tear roll down her cheek and wiped it away before Tsukiro could see. Yes. Definitely a secret.
Thank you my faithful readers! (All is quiet. Crickets in the background.) Alright. I know I haven't updated since... since... whatever. But I was working on my story, Angels Galore, and was too busy to type up the rest of the chappie and update. You can ask Gold Ink about this. If you want to annoy her, call it Angels Galore instead of Vampires Galore. (MOO HA HA to Shanti...) (Kidding) anyway, there was more to this, but I cut it out 'cuz I felt this was long enough for the chappie. Anyway, tell me, which is more possible, Good Vampires or Evil Angels?
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