Author's Note: This is the second to last chapter. The next one's really
long. SOOO...
keep reading.
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Disclaimer: Shiroryu- Ok, after a lot of taking with my attorney (which I don't even pay! Hehehe) I've agreed I won't plot to get Rumiko Takahashi to give me Inuyasha and/or any other of her official characters.
Attorney-Good. Glad you finally came to the light.
Shiroryu-I'll just kidnap them and we'll hideout in a non-English speaking country, where we all be together till the end of time!!! *laughs evilly*
Attorney-OK, that is NOT what we discussed!
"What the heck?" Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, Shippo and Kagome all said together. Rainey ran (well actually hobbled) for her life towards her friends with Iyana Me-ushi right behind her. "You guys are up? Thank goodness!" Rainey said as she limped to the wall.
"Why-" Inuyasha started.
"on earth-" Shippo added.
"is a-" Sango helped.
"cow-" Miroku chimed in.
"chasing you?" Kagome finished.
They all stared at her with the biggest looks of bewilderment imaginable. "Long story. can you guys get out?"
Inuyasha tugged at the chains on his wrists till they broke. Then he jumped over to Kagome's, then Shippo's, Miroku's and Sango's.
"Great! Now, HELP ME!!!" Rainey screamed. Her busted foot finally gave out and she fell on the ground. Inuyasha sprang in front of her just as the cow was coming at her. He swung at it with Tetsuiaga. It dodged. Inuyasha ducked a spray of milk coming right at him. Inuyasha swung his mighty sword again, but missed the cow by inches. It did a freaky back flip (That really did look like it was from the Matrix) and landed softly on the ground 10 feet from Inuyasha. It let out a huge "Moo!" and stood up on its hind legs again and transformed into the human like form of Iyana Me-ushi.
*stare*
*stare*
*stare*
"A cow?" Shippo said, speaking for everyone.
"Yes, a cow. My truest form. No one seems to appreciate just how majestic we are." Iyana said.
"A cow?" Miroku said.
*snicker*
*snicker*
"Oh, you think that's funny? Well, how about we try something you're more scared of, shall we Kagome?" Iyana turned herself into the biggest, blackest, ugliest spider anyone had ever seen.
*giggle*
*giggle*
"You're supposed to be terrified of spiders!" Iyana screamed.
"Not when that spider was a cow 2 seconds ago." Kagome chortled
"How about you Shippo? Remember the brothers that killed your father?" Iyana turned herself into the two brothers responsible for Shippo's father's death, Hiten and Manten.
"That's not scary. It's just dumb." Shippo said.
"You're not scary." Sango said.
"Yeah. What's with you?" Inuyasha said.
"I've seen scarier 5 year olds." Miroku said.
They all laughed at this, forgetting about their foe.
*POW*
The group turned at the boom to see Iyana's black light she had originally trapped the group in exploded in front of her.
"NO!!!" she screamed. Something had seriously backfired. Iyana went extremely pale as she held her stomach as if in pain. She started convulsing uncontrollably on the ground. She was getting smaller and smaller by the second. Inuyasha stared at his friends while trying to find an answer as to why she was shrinking. No one was able to give it to him. So they continued to stare in incredulity. Within 2 minutes, she had completely disappeared, leaving only the shard of the Shikon no Tama that had been lodged in her horn on the ground.
*silence*
"Uh.can someone please explain what just happened here?" Kagome asked as she picked up the jewel and purified it.
*silence*
"Ow!" Rainey said. She was still on the ground, with her bloody, twisted foot. It was an ugly, gruesome site. "Oh man! I'm gonna be crippled for the rest of my life! This will never heal right." Rainey sobbed as she cradled her repugnant foot.
"Yes, it will." Someone said. The Queen of Spirits wafted down from wherever she had come from. She looked down at Rainey. "Do you really think I would allow your foot to be forever mangled?" and with that she placed a hand on Rainey's foot. When she lifted it, it was completely healed.
"Oh, hey. Thanks." Rainey said as if it were completely natural for a woman that looked older than most people's great-great grandmothers to float down to earth from out of nowhere and heal broken feet.
"And just who're you?" Inuyasha insolently.
"Ah, Inuyasha. I see your manners have not improved from the last time I saw you."
"What?"
"You do not remember me, but I remember you. Your father aided me greatly when Naraku's father had beaten me. Your father gave me the strength to fight and win. You were only about 5 or 6 when I came. You had the worst manners imaginable. But enough about that."
"Wait, where'd Naraku go?" Miroku asked. The group looked around to find he'd disappeared.
"Oh he is long gone. Do not worry, you shall certainly see him again. He always was a coward. Sending in my sister to do his dirty work. He always did vex me."
They all looked at her for awhile, trying to figure out how to word their confusion. Finally Rainey spoke up. "Hey, uh Your Majesty or whatever, what the hell just happened?" She said.
"Oh, right, well you defeated my sister, the Queen of Fear and Nightmares. Congratulations."
"So we defeated fear and nightmares?" Kagome asked.
"Um, no." The Queen said.
"Well why not? If we defeated the ruler, then they must be gone! The world is fear free!"
The Queen sighed heavily. "How shall I explain this to you?" she mused aloud. Suddenly she snapped her fingers and pointed to Kagome. "Look on your shoe."
Kagome looked down to see a huge tarantula crawling on her shoe."
"EEEEKKKKKK!!!! GET IT OFF!!!! GET IT OFF!!!" Kagome screamed. She kicked her foot wildly, narrowly missing Inuyasha. "Will you stop? It's just a spider!" he yelled. But Kagome didn't hear him. She continued to scream uncontrollably.
"Hush child." The Queen said as she waved her hand. "You are fine. It is gone, see?" Kagome looked down. It was gone. She breathed a sigh of relief as she sat down on the ground. She couldn't help glancing down at her shoe though, and unconsciously swiping at it.
"See, there will always be fear and there will always be nightmares. It is a part of life. What you defeated was someone who thought she could harness those fears, which is impossible, because you are in control of your fears."
"So what happened?" Miroku voiced everyone else's thoughts.
"Do you remembered what happened before you all woke up and found yourselves in shackles?"
"Yeah, I was about to be killed by my brother." Sango said.
"I was being sucked into my Wind Tunnel." Miroku added
"I was left alone." Shippo piped in.
"I was leaving the feudal era." Kagome said quietly as she hugged her knees. They all looked at her, but said nothing.
"You see, all of your worst nightmares had come true, thanks to Iyana Me- ushi. Her given power was to help human dreams and wishes come true, but her heart grew evil and she turned her gift into something evil. If you all had continued doing what you were doing in your nightmares, you would have eventually shattered."
"Shattered?" Shippo asked.
"Yes. The sadness you were experiencing would have overwhelmed you to the point of complete obliteration of your dreams. And without your dreams, you are basically an empty vessel, no will to live and nothing to live for. That's what keeps the human spirit alive. The dreams."
"So we would've died?" Miroku asked.
"Not die, you would have just been lifeless."
"Wait a minute, if you're the queen of spirits, why didn't you handle your sister yourself? Why'd you drag me and my sister into it?" Rainey asked.
"I am growing weak with each passing day. My time of rule is ending. I needed your help because I could not do it." She answered.
"Where's my sister?" Rainey asked.
"I sent her home. She does not remember the last couple of weeks and neither do your parents. Everything is back to normal."
"Why'd you wipe her memory?"
"Because she is not yet ready to handle the responsibility that will be laid upon her shoulders. I needed your sister so she could help you, since you are so stubborn."
"Am not!"
"So what will happen to the nightmares?" Inuyasha asked.
"Someone else will try to take control of them. It has been this way since the beginning of time. But the thing of the matter is, it is impossible."
"What do you mean? Iyana was in control of our nightmares and worst fears." Shippo said.
"No, she was creating illusions and scenes in your mind. She found out what frightened you. What could defeat you. The only reason she could do that was because that's her power. But she was never in control of them."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Inuyasha sighed heavily. Kagome shot him a glare before returning her attention back to the Queen.
"Hmm.let me make this simple. Iyana was making all of your worst fears come true, correct?"
The group nodded.
"But here is the key. She wasn't making them. You were."
"Huh?"
"You are the only ones who can control your nightmares. No one else has that power within you. How do you think you defeated my sister?"
"Um."
"I will tell you. Once you realized you were not scared, you took control again. And with that many people taking control of themselves like that, it overheated Iyana Me-Ushi. Losing all of that power drained her life force, creating her demise."
"Oh." Kagome breathed.
"So now, I will have to replace her. The world needs balance, good and evil, right and wrong, and so forth."
"What will you do if someone else tries to take over like your sister?" Sango asked.
"Continue fighting."
"But you said you're too weak." Miroku objected.
"I am, but Rainey is not."
"Huh?"
"Rainey, you have been chosen to become the Right Hand Sacred Helper to the next Queen of Spirits."
"What? What the heck is that?" Rainey asked.
"You would be the guardian of the next Queen of Spirits. The Queen is strong, but her guardian is stronger. Your job will be to protect the Queen with your powers."
Rainey stared blankly at her, not sure what to say.
"We will train your powers, so that fighting evil, like my sister, will be easier." That statement right there seemed to pull Rainey out of her stupor.
"You mean I'll have to do stuff like this on a regular basis?" she cried.
"To a degree." The Queen replied.
Rainey started to shake her head. "No." she answered simply.
"No?" the Queen repeated.
"That's right. No. I can't. I'm not strong enough for all of that"
"You have been chosen. This is what you have been called to do." The Queen argued.
"Too bad. I'm not doing it. Get someone else."
"There is no one else." The Queen said, obviously getting angry.
"Rainey," Kagome said. "you're one of the strongest people I know. This is your destiny. Face it full on."
"This can't be what I'm meant to do. I didn't even do anything!" Rainey cried out. "Get someone else to do it!"
"I just told you, I cannot get someone else. You are they only one who can fulfill this task. Right now you are the only one on earth with your kind of power. Right Hand Sacred Helpers are born according to when the new Queen comes along. There is no one else on earth."
"Wait a minute. Where's your Right Hand Sacred Helper?" Rainey asked.
"He died. He was fighting off Iyana Me-Ushi and his life was the cost to protect me." The Queen said.
Rainey stared again. No one ever said this job might cost her her life "I'm the only one on earth who can do this?" Rainey asked incredibly.
"Yes. The only one." The Queen said with finality in her voice.
"You don't understand. I'm only 15. I'm still." Rainey gulped, not wanting to say what would come next. ".a kid. I don't want this responsibility."
"We are all faced with obstacles in the road of life that we do not want to deal with. Whether or not you handle them is how the weak and strong are determined."
Rainey looked around her for the first time since she had found out her new destiny. All her friends were nodding their heads in approval. "Do you really think I can do it?" she asked them. "What if I screw up?"
"It's your decision, but I don't think you'll screw up." Inuyasha said. "With your temper, stubbornness, and personality I don't think there's much you can't do."
Rainey's eyes widen. Was that INUYASHA giving her a compliment? "You mean that?"
"Yeah." He shrugged.
"Hey Rainey?" Sango asked.
Rainey turned around. "Yeah?"
"Don't worry. If this is what you were called to do, then you must be the perfect one for it."
Rainey smiled. If her friends thought she could do it, then maybe she could. She looked up at the Queen. "What about my parents? And exactly where will this training be? Will I still be able to do what I like to do? What about school? Exactly what kind of powers do I have? Can I disappear? Can I fly? Can I make lighting come out of my fingers and strike people down at will? Who's the new Queen of Spirits?"
"I will answer all your questions when we get to the Summit of the Helpers"
"Summit of the Helpers?"
"Yes, that is where the first steps of your training will begin."
"When do we leave?"
"I will be back for you in 2 days to begin your training. Wrap things up here, O.K.?"
"Alright."
The Queen of Spirits floated back up into the air and disappeared.
Rainey turned to look at her friends.
"I think we have some things to talk about." Rainey smiled.
"Ya know," Kagome said putting her arm around Rainey's shoulders, "I think you're right.
END OF CHAPTER 17
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Pieces Panda: Vel, ze bluish/zilver light eez Rainey's energy. She ahz ze power to shoot eet out of hur. Thanks for reviewing! *hugs Pieces Panda*
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Disclaimer: Shiroryu- Ok, after a lot of taking with my attorney (which I don't even pay! Hehehe) I've agreed I won't plot to get Rumiko Takahashi to give me Inuyasha and/or any other of her official characters.
Attorney-Good. Glad you finally came to the light.
Shiroryu-I'll just kidnap them and we'll hideout in a non-English speaking country, where we all be together till the end of time!!! *laughs evilly*
Attorney-OK, that is NOT what we discussed!
"What the heck?" Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, Shippo and Kagome all said together. Rainey ran (well actually hobbled) for her life towards her friends with Iyana Me-ushi right behind her. "You guys are up? Thank goodness!" Rainey said as she limped to the wall.
"Why-" Inuyasha started.
"on earth-" Shippo added.
"is a-" Sango helped.
"cow-" Miroku chimed in.
"chasing you?" Kagome finished.
They all stared at her with the biggest looks of bewilderment imaginable. "Long story. can you guys get out?"
Inuyasha tugged at the chains on his wrists till they broke. Then he jumped over to Kagome's, then Shippo's, Miroku's and Sango's.
"Great! Now, HELP ME!!!" Rainey screamed. Her busted foot finally gave out and she fell on the ground. Inuyasha sprang in front of her just as the cow was coming at her. He swung at it with Tetsuiaga. It dodged. Inuyasha ducked a spray of milk coming right at him. Inuyasha swung his mighty sword again, but missed the cow by inches. It did a freaky back flip (That really did look like it was from the Matrix) and landed softly on the ground 10 feet from Inuyasha. It let out a huge "Moo!" and stood up on its hind legs again and transformed into the human like form of Iyana Me-ushi.
*stare*
*stare*
*stare*
"A cow?" Shippo said, speaking for everyone.
"Yes, a cow. My truest form. No one seems to appreciate just how majestic we are." Iyana said.
"A cow?" Miroku said.
*snicker*
*snicker*
"Oh, you think that's funny? Well, how about we try something you're more scared of, shall we Kagome?" Iyana turned herself into the biggest, blackest, ugliest spider anyone had ever seen.
*giggle*
*giggle*
"You're supposed to be terrified of spiders!" Iyana screamed.
"Not when that spider was a cow 2 seconds ago." Kagome chortled
"How about you Shippo? Remember the brothers that killed your father?" Iyana turned herself into the two brothers responsible for Shippo's father's death, Hiten and Manten.
"That's not scary. It's just dumb." Shippo said.
"You're not scary." Sango said.
"Yeah. What's with you?" Inuyasha said.
"I've seen scarier 5 year olds." Miroku said.
They all laughed at this, forgetting about their foe.
*POW*
The group turned at the boom to see Iyana's black light she had originally trapped the group in exploded in front of her.
"NO!!!" she screamed. Something had seriously backfired. Iyana went extremely pale as she held her stomach as if in pain. She started convulsing uncontrollably on the ground. She was getting smaller and smaller by the second. Inuyasha stared at his friends while trying to find an answer as to why she was shrinking. No one was able to give it to him. So they continued to stare in incredulity. Within 2 minutes, she had completely disappeared, leaving only the shard of the Shikon no Tama that had been lodged in her horn on the ground.
*silence*
"Uh.can someone please explain what just happened here?" Kagome asked as she picked up the jewel and purified it.
*silence*
"Ow!" Rainey said. She was still on the ground, with her bloody, twisted foot. It was an ugly, gruesome site. "Oh man! I'm gonna be crippled for the rest of my life! This will never heal right." Rainey sobbed as she cradled her repugnant foot.
"Yes, it will." Someone said. The Queen of Spirits wafted down from wherever she had come from. She looked down at Rainey. "Do you really think I would allow your foot to be forever mangled?" and with that she placed a hand on Rainey's foot. When she lifted it, it was completely healed.
"Oh, hey. Thanks." Rainey said as if it were completely natural for a woman that looked older than most people's great-great grandmothers to float down to earth from out of nowhere and heal broken feet.
"And just who're you?" Inuyasha insolently.
"Ah, Inuyasha. I see your manners have not improved from the last time I saw you."
"What?"
"You do not remember me, but I remember you. Your father aided me greatly when Naraku's father had beaten me. Your father gave me the strength to fight and win. You were only about 5 or 6 when I came. You had the worst manners imaginable. But enough about that."
"Wait, where'd Naraku go?" Miroku asked. The group looked around to find he'd disappeared.
"Oh he is long gone. Do not worry, you shall certainly see him again. He always was a coward. Sending in my sister to do his dirty work. He always did vex me."
They all looked at her for awhile, trying to figure out how to word their confusion. Finally Rainey spoke up. "Hey, uh Your Majesty or whatever, what the hell just happened?" She said.
"Oh, right, well you defeated my sister, the Queen of Fear and Nightmares. Congratulations."
"So we defeated fear and nightmares?" Kagome asked.
"Um, no." The Queen said.
"Well why not? If we defeated the ruler, then they must be gone! The world is fear free!"
The Queen sighed heavily. "How shall I explain this to you?" she mused aloud. Suddenly she snapped her fingers and pointed to Kagome. "Look on your shoe."
Kagome looked down to see a huge tarantula crawling on her shoe."
"EEEEKKKKKK!!!! GET IT OFF!!!! GET IT OFF!!!" Kagome screamed. She kicked her foot wildly, narrowly missing Inuyasha. "Will you stop? It's just a spider!" he yelled. But Kagome didn't hear him. She continued to scream uncontrollably.
"Hush child." The Queen said as she waved her hand. "You are fine. It is gone, see?" Kagome looked down. It was gone. She breathed a sigh of relief as she sat down on the ground. She couldn't help glancing down at her shoe though, and unconsciously swiping at it.
"See, there will always be fear and there will always be nightmares. It is a part of life. What you defeated was someone who thought she could harness those fears, which is impossible, because you are in control of your fears."
"So what happened?" Miroku voiced everyone else's thoughts.
"Do you remembered what happened before you all woke up and found yourselves in shackles?"
"Yeah, I was about to be killed by my brother." Sango said.
"I was being sucked into my Wind Tunnel." Miroku added
"I was left alone." Shippo piped in.
"I was leaving the feudal era." Kagome said quietly as she hugged her knees. They all looked at her, but said nothing.
"You see, all of your worst nightmares had come true, thanks to Iyana Me- ushi. Her given power was to help human dreams and wishes come true, but her heart grew evil and she turned her gift into something evil. If you all had continued doing what you were doing in your nightmares, you would have eventually shattered."
"Shattered?" Shippo asked.
"Yes. The sadness you were experiencing would have overwhelmed you to the point of complete obliteration of your dreams. And without your dreams, you are basically an empty vessel, no will to live and nothing to live for. That's what keeps the human spirit alive. The dreams."
"So we would've died?" Miroku asked.
"Not die, you would have just been lifeless."
"Wait a minute, if you're the queen of spirits, why didn't you handle your sister yourself? Why'd you drag me and my sister into it?" Rainey asked.
"I am growing weak with each passing day. My time of rule is ending. I needed your help because I could not do it." She answered.
"Where's my sister?" Rainey asked.
"I sent her home. She does not remember the last couple of weeks and neither do your parents. Everything is back to normal."
"Why'd you wipe her memory?"
"Because she is not yet ready to handle the responsibility that will be laid upon her shoulders. I needed your sister so she could help you, since you are so stubborn."
"Am not!"
"So what will happen to the nightmares?" Inuyasha asked.
"Someone else will try to take control of them. It has been this way since the beginning of time. But the thing of the matter is, it is impossible."
"What do you mean? Iyana was in control of our nightmares and worst fears." Shippo said.
"No, she was creating illusions and scenes in your mind. She found out what frightened you. What could defeat you. The only reason she could do that was because that's her power. But she was never in control of them."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Inuyasha sighed heavily. Kagome shot him a glare before returning her attention back to the Queen.
"Hmm.let me make this simple. Iyana was making all of your worst fears come true, correct?"
The group nodded.
"But here is the key. She wasn't making them. You were."
"Huh?"
"You are the only ones who can control your nightmares. No one else has that power within you. How do you think you defeated my sister?"
"Um."
"I will tell you. Once you realized you were not scared, you took control again. And with that many people taking control of themselves like that, it overheated Iyana Me-Ushi. Losing all of that power drained her life force, creating her demise."
"Oh." Kagome breathed.
"So now, I will have to replace her. The world needs balance, good and evil, right and wrong, and so forth."
"What will you do if someone else tries to take over like your sister?" Sango asked.
"Continue fighting."
"But you said you're too weak." Miroku objected.
"I am, but Rainey is not."
"Huh?"
"Rainey, you have been chosen to become the Right Hand Sacred Helper to the next Queen of Spirits."
"What? What the heck is that?" Rainey asked.
"You would be the guardian of the next Queen of Spirits. The Queen is strong, but her guardian is stronger. Your job will be to protect the Queen with your powers."
Rainey stared blankly at her, not sure what to say.
"We will train your powers, so that fighting evil, like my sister, will be easier." That statement right there seemed to pull Rainey out of her stupor.
"You mean I'll have to do stuff like this on a regular basis?" she cried.
"To a degree." The Queen replied.
Rainey started to shake her head. "No." she answered simply.
"No?" the Queen repeated.
"That's right. No. I can't. I'm not strong enough for all of that"
"You have been chosen. This is what you have been called to do." The Queen argued.
"Too bad. I'm not doing it. Get someone else."
"There is no one else." The Queen said, obviously getting angry.
"Rainey," Kagome said. "you're one of the strongest people I know. This is your destiny. Face it full on."
"This can't be what I'm meant to do. I didn't even do anything!" Rainey cried out. "Get someone else to do it!"
"I just told you, I cannot get someone else. You are they only one who can fulfill this task. Right now you are the only one on earth with your kind of power. Right Hand Sacred Helpers are born according to when the new Queen comes along. There is no one else on earth."
"Wait a minute. Where's your Right Hand Sacred Helper?" Rainey asked.
"He died. He was fighting off Iyana Me-Ushi and his life was the cost to protect me." The Queen said.
Rainey stared again. No one ever said this job might cost her her life "I'm the only one on earth who can do this?" Rainey asked incredibly.
"Yes. The only one." The Queen said with finality in her voice.
"You don't understand. I'm only 15. I'm still." Rainey gulped, not wanting to say what would come next. ".a kid. I don't want this responsibility."
"We are all faced with obstacles in the road of life that we do not want to deal with. Whether or not you handle them is how the weak and strong are determined."
Rainey looked around her for the first time since she had found out her new destiny. All her friends were nodding their heads in approval. "Do you really think I can do it?" she asked them. "What if I screw up?"
"It's your decision, but I don't think you'll screw up." Inuyasha said. "With your temper, stubbornness, and personality I don't think there's much you can't do."
Rainey's eyes widen. Was that INUYASHA giving her a compliment? "You mean that?"
"Yeah." He shrugged.
"Hey Rainey?" Sango asked.
Rainey turned around. "Yeah?"
"Don't worry. If this is what you were called to do, then you must be the perfect one for it."
Rainey smiled. If her friends thought she could do it, then maybe she could. She looked up at the Queen. "What about my parents? And exactly where will this training be? Will I still be able to do what I like to do? What about school? Exactly what kind of powers do I have? Can I disappear? Can I fly? Can I make lighting come out of my fingers and strike people down at will? Who's the new Queen of Spirits?"
"I will answer all your questions when we get to the Summit of the Helpers"
"Summit of the Helpers?"
"Yes, that is where the first steps of your training will begin."
"When do we leave?"
"I will be back for you in 2 days to begin your training. Wrap things up here, O.K.?"
"Alright."
The Queen of Spirits floated back up into the air and disappeared.
Rainey turned to look at her friends.
"I think we have some things to talk about." Rainey smiled.
"Ya know," Kagome said putting her arm around Rainey's shoulders, "I think you're right.
END OF CHAPTER 17
So, this is the second to last chapter! But I have a surprise for you guys. But you HAVE to review! Come on...
You KNOW you want to. Just click the button....
There ya go!