Chapter 5: The battle begins
They all started off, Kyara and Miroku on Kiara, Shippo and Kagome riding on Inu. They fairly flew back to the well, expecting the mother spider to be there. But when they got there, the spider was one, no trace of footsteps on the ground. But there was still the stench in the air, and the feeling of evilness. Between Inu and Kiara's sense of smell, Miroku and Kyara's sense of evilness, and Kagome's sight of evil, they quickly found the path to the monster's new lair.
They enteed the cave, and suddenl noticed that Shippo was missing. They figured that the little fox-demon was off hiding somewhere, waiting for them to come back, or maybe waiting to become a suprise attacker in the fight. Either way, Shippo was not in the area, and they were going to attack the spider first.
They continued into the cave, all of them seeing one way or another. Kagome saw too much evil, so it was like a sonar. Inu had demonic powers, so he could see anywhere. Miroku and Kyara were seeing on the feeling of evil, so it ran like sonar, too. Kiara was a cat, so she had the sight of night-time animals. Shippo, was a demon, so he was probably using his powers to see.
They made their way into a huge cavern, with a tall cieling, wide walls, and a seriously bright glow of evil from the center. There lay a huge spider, glaring at the newcomers with eight eyes. They all went into battle mode, even Kagome as she felt the jewel getting hot on the necklace from which it hung.
Inu launched himself at the spider with claws outstreched. Miroku cast a fire spell at the spider. The enormous boomerang that Kyara had went flying. Kiara threw herself at the spder, paws flaming.Shippo popped out, casting a fox-paw spell on himself to make his paw shred anything he touched.
Kagome casted at the spider, effectively dropping the spider-demon's shields just as all the other attacks hit it. The huge monstrosity reared up, being clawed, flamed, and sliced. It fell in a large number of pieces, ranging in all sizes. Blood and guts flew all over, coating everyone in the room with slime and odd parts of the once-great spider-queen demon.
As the spider fell, Kagome noticed a shimmer around a body part. Shee went over to examine it closer. All the pieces of the spder began to quiver. Kagome sat down, and grabbed the jewel that was stuck in the body part. The parts all stopped quivering, and the room fell silent and dark, as there was no more evil to see by. Kagome was still able to use her jewel and the new jewel to see, as they gave off an aura that only Kagome could see. Miroku had gone blind but for seeing kagome's jewels, but Kyara was blind. She couldn't feel evil around anymore, so she had no way of seeing where she was going. Kiara nudged Kyara, and the rider hopped on.
Once they all got outside, they examined the new jewel. There was nothing interesing about the physical appearance; it looked just like the Shikon jewel. The aura around it, as Kagome told the rest, was stronger, much stronger. They took it to the village, and the priestess there, Kaede's daughter Katy, took one look at it and realized it for what it was.
"It's the jewel of eight souls, of course. There's all the levels. There's one soul, two souls, four, eight, 16, 32, and 64. The higher the number, the stronger the jewel. There is a prophecy that says that whenever these begin coming to the world, there will be dead gods and goddesses that are going to be replaced. But then the prophecy goes on to say that there will be one time when there will be a human goddess and a half-breed god, sharing their power with each other. I believe that the two of you can find all of them if you try hard enough, and keep the company of your wonderful friends"
With that, they set ot to go on a new journey. The journey of the jewels.
They enteed the cave, and suddenl noticed that Shippo was missing. They figured that the little fox-demon was off hiding somewhere, waiting for them to come back, or maybe waiting to become a suprise attacker in the fight. Either way, Shippo was not in the area, and they were going to attack the spider first.
They continued into the cave, all of them seeing one way or another. Kagome saw too much evil, so it was like a sonar. Inu had demonic powers, so he could see anywhere. Miroku and Kyara were seeing on the feeling of evil, so it ran like sonar, too. Kiara was a cat, so she had the sight of night-time animals. Shippo, was a demon, so he was probably using his powers to see.
They made their way into a huge cavern, with a tall cieling, wide walls, and a seriously bright glow of evil from the center. There lay a huge spider, glaring at the newcomers with eight eyes. They all went into battle mode, even Kagome as she felt the jewel getting hot on the necklace from which it hung.
Inu launched himself at the spider with claws outstreched. Miroku cast a fire spell at the spider. The enormous boomerang that Kyara had went flying. Kiara threw herself at the spder, paws flaming.Shippo popped out, casting a fox-paw spell on himself to make his paw shred anything he touched.
Kagome casted at the spider, effectively dropping the spider-demon's shields just as all the other attacks hit it. The huge monstrosity reared up, being clawed, flamed, and sliced. It fell in a large number of pieces, ranging in all sizes. Blood and guts flew all over, coating everyone in the room with slime and odd parts of the once-great spider-queen demon.
As the spider fell, Kagome noticed a shimmer around a body part. Shee went over to examine it closer. All the pieces of the spder began to quiver. Kagome sat down, and grabbed the jewel that was stuck in the body part. The parts all stopped quivering, and the room fell silent and dark, as there was no more evil to see by. Kagome was still able to use her jewel and the new jewel to see, as they gave off an aura that only Kagome could see. Miroku had gone blind but for seeing kagome's jewels, but Kyara was blind. She couldn't feel evil around anymore, so she had no way of seeing where she was going. Kiara nudged Kyara, and the rider hopped on.
Once they all got outside, they examined the new jewel. There was nothing interesing about the physical appearance; it looked just like the Shikon jewel. The aura around it, as Kagome told the rest, was stronger, much stronger. They took it to the village, and the priestess there, Kaede's daughter Katy, took one look at it and realized it for what it was.
"It's the jewel of eight souls, of course. There's all the levels. There's one soul, two souls, four, eight, 16, 32, and 64. The higher the number, the stronger the jewel. There is a prophecy that says that whenever these begin coming to the world, there will be dead gods and goddesses that are going to be replaced. But then the prophecy goes on to say that there will be one time when there will be a human goddess and a half-breed god, sharing their power with each other. I believe that the two of you can find all of them if you try hard enough, and keep the company of your wonderful friends"
With that, they set ot to go on a new journey. The journey of the jewels.