A SILVER HOPE
CHAPTER TWELVE:
.....Melts Away To Life......
Chris was in shock, how could he possibly be Inuyasha's brother, and if that was true,shouldn't he be at least half
demon, wouldn't Sesshomaru have known as well. All these questions flew around chris' mind as he just stared blankly
at the girl. she smirked as she enjoyed the stupor that chris had fallen into, she shifted her weight and tilted her head
to one side...chris turned his attention to her and glared, she had to be lying...another one of Naraku's followers trying
to trick him...chris shook his head and frowned...
chris: you're lying...
Anna: I'd figured that you would say that, so, I have a way that even you will have to believe...
chris: huh?
Anna: sit back and enjoy the show...
chris: what the hell...
The woman chanted something and next thing chris knew it, it felt like he was being pulled threw some sort of
tunnel and he didn't like what was happening to him...suddenly he and the strange woman landed in a village, but
something was wrong with the scenery, everything seemed to be tinted brown and have a blurry feeling...
chris: where the hell am I?
Anna: I have decided to show you a scene from your mother's past, and if this doesn't convince you then, there is
one other way to make you see the truth...
chris: whatever...
Anna: look, there she is...
Chris turned to see a beautiful young woman walking threw the village, something lurched inside of chris and
he looked like he was going to be sick for a moment. He had seen this woman before, she was Inuyasha's mother,
but that didn't mean anything...yet...
Chris: your just showing me Inuyasha's mother...I know what happens...he'll come running out of no where and she'll
comfert him...I've seen this one...
Anna: shsssss...just watch...
Chris: I don't want to see something I've already seen...
Anna: it's important to unlocking your past...
chris: my past...what are you on about? I know my past!
Anna: no, you don't...
Chris: hrm...?
Anna: you think you know...but chris...tell me, three months ago...did you expect to be in feudal Japan with Sesshomaru?
chris: no...I thought it would be fun...I never expected it to actually happen...
Anna: and do you know how or why you're here?
chris: ...no, but I figure I was just at the wrong place at the right time...
Anna: no, chris...there is more to all this then you think...
Chris: but what do I have to do with Inuyasha's mother?
Anna: take a look and let the truth engulf you...
Chris: ugh...fine, if it'll get you to leave me alone...
Chris turned to see the woman, she looked like she was searching for someone or something, then she began to
wave to something in the distance....A man on horse back raced up to her and the man lept off and gave the woman
a hug, chris tilted his head. this man seemed very familier...he had blue/grey eyes and black hair that went down half
ways down his back.
Chris: who is that...I know for a fact that that's not Inuyasha's father...
Anna: no, it's not Inuyasha's father...this man is human...
Chris: human?....
The man was laughing at something and the woman gave a small sigh as she turned, something that had
been hidden from veiw was now reveilled, it was a very young little boy...Chris was narrowing his eyes as he
saw this kid...the man lifted the kid up high and looked proud, the boy was laughing...
chris: hmmm..they look so happy...
Anna: does any of this seem familier to you?
chris: no, not really...
Anna: there's got to be something that will trigger your memory.
Chris: or...this could all just be a big illusion and some trick of Naraku's...
Anna: is that what you think...perhaps you should take a look at this...
Chris turned back to the seemingly happy family, the boy looked alot like his father, only he had shorter black
hair then his fathers....suddenly the woman and man's faces dropped and they looked at something out of veiw...
The winds picked up and the three looked horrified as something dark began to swarm the skies...it looked like
giant bugs, but chris couldn't fully make them out. The man shoved the boy into the womans arms and it looked
as if he was telling her to run, but she wasn't leaving. The boy was now crying and the swarm was growing
larger by the second. Chris looked from the family to the swarm and back again, somewhere deep inside him he
wanted to help them, but knew that it wouldn't help...
Chris: what's going on...why aren't they leaving!?
Anna: ah...a family bond that is so deep that they never want to part...even if it means death for all...
Chris: what? That's the most stupidest thing I've ever heard...
Anna: perhaps, but keep watching...
The swarm was about to engulf the family and chris could finally make out what the swarm was of, it was
a swarm of giant demonic birds. The man put his arms around the woman and child and they awaited the horrible
death that was only seconds away, chris looked away...but when he looked back he saw that the birds were being
thrown back by some kind of invisible barrier around the three, even the man and woman looked confused at first.
when they pulled apart they looked down at the boy and he was giggling as the barrier seemed to be coming from
deep within the boy....the birds destroyed the rest of the village and all the other people, leaving the family of three
the only survivors...Chris stared almost not believing, what had happened and where did that power come from...
surely no baby could have possibly saved them...He turned to the woman who was smirking at him...
Chris: what...what...I don't...
Anna: let it finish...
Chris: hmmm...
the scene changed and the family was now walking down a path looking rather tired, the woman and child sat on
the horse as the man walked ahead leading the horse, they had no where to go now that their home had been destroyed
by the birds, so they had to find a new village and ask if they could join it...they seemed to be walking for a while, just
then the horse began to freak out and the woman fell off of the horse, the little boy fell out of her arms and rolled down
a grassy hill...
Chris: what the hell's going on now!?
Anna: this' where things are going to get...well, you'll see...
Chris: will I now...
The woman was hurt and calling for her son, the man was busy trying to calm down the horse when the reighns
snapped and the horse bolted for dear life...out of the forest ran a pack of wolves and before the man could draw his
sword the wolves had jumped on his front and were tearing him to shreds, the woman was screaming and crying, she
knew that she would be next and hoped that her son would get away...The shredded and bloody body of the man fell
to the ground and the woman was in hysterics, she tried to get away and she too slipped down the hill and landed only
feet from where her son laid, he wasn't moving or making a sound. The blood thirsty wolves came down the hill and
where in mid leap when suddenly the were hit with a storm of arrows, the remaining wolves ran off with their tails
between their legs. The woman was so out of it, that when she was being carried back to the village, she didn't know
who was who and what was what...She was crying, she had lost both her husband and her only son that day...
It changed again, this time it showed the same woman, but this time she was watching a young boy with long
white hair and dog ears, she had a new son...it was late and the woman walked down to the brook and looked up at the
stars and tears rolled down her face and she prayed for her lost husband and son...
Chris felt this over whelming anger and he suddenly knew that what this woman showed him was the truth and he
began to remember everything...
Chris: Don't cry for me!
Chris was being lurched back into the present day, he collapsed to the ground and looked like he had been
personally hurt...his sword laid by his side, he didn't move for a long time and when he did, he noticed that the
woman who had shown him the past was gone...Still a little skeptical, chris decided that there was only one other
living person who would know the truth...and that was the man who had forged and given chris the Hitotachi...
Sesshomaru walked over to chris and looked down at him, there was a bond that neither one of them knew of
until now and chris had finally figured it out...it was because he was distantly related to Sesshomaru, and was
the Half brother of Inuyasha...And now chris knew what he had to do...he had to find a way to make himself
a full demon, he had to find a way to make himself worthy of his heritage...
Sesshomaru: we should go if you want to find him before it gets dark...
Chris: mmmm...right...
Chris paused as he reached for his sword, he looked at his reflection and wondered...was it all just a dream?
was he really about to confirm what seemed to be an unreal truth. He stood and looked at Sesshomaru, who just
nodded and the two walked back into the dark forest...
Ali was taking a walk threw the fields and watching the sun set, it was a beautiful and peaceful day, not one
thing went wrong and everyone seemed to have gotten along with each other all day, which was odd. Ali noted
some of the local plants and tried to remember what they were used for, she was stumped on one very familier
looking plant when she had a creepy feeling that she was being watched. She turned around, but no one was
there, she sighed and held the spear she was carring at the ready...she knew that even though she couldn't see
whatever was out there, it didn't mean that it wasn't there.
Ali: alright, who ever's there come out right now!
there was nothing, it was starting to get dark and Ali knew that she shouldn't be so far from the village and
she turned to head back. that's when whatever attacked, one grabbed her from behind and she dropped her spear,
another one grabbed the spear and held it up to her. Ali glared at the creature staring her in the eyes, it was the
strangest thing. It was human, but had cat like features and huge ears and tails. Ali tried to break free but the
thing that had her from the back had her held in a way that she couldn't get away.
Ali: what the hell...
Noi: hehe...perfect...
Blance: are you sure...
Noi: of course, stupid...
Blance: she's a little tough looking...
Noi: do you think the great devine one really cares?
Ali: Get off of me you creeps.
Blance: stupid Human...
Noi: we can't have you alerting your friends...
Ali: I'm going to kill you once I...
Blance: should we...you know...
Noi: it would be best...we don't want her to upset the sacrificing process...
Ali: excuse me!? I'm not being sacrificed for anything or any one...
Noi: that's where your wrong, human...the devine one rises tonight and a sacrifice is needed...
Ali: well, find someone else to sacrifice...
Blance: no time...
Ali: fuck this...INU....
One of the creatures smacked Ali over the head and before she could finish calling for help, she was knocked
out cold. The two creatures then carried her off into the now dark forest, they had only a few hours left to prepare
and had to get the human sacrifice ready.
In the village Inuyasha's ears pricked up and he looked out to the fields, the others looked at him.
Miroku: what is it?
Inuyasha: it sounded like Some one just called for me...
Miroku: from the fields?
Inuyasha: yeah..
Sango: Ali went for a walk out to the fields...
Inuyasha: I'll be back...
Inuyasha made his way out to the fields, he couldn't see Ali anywhere but the whole area had an ordor of demon.
He came to a skidding halt when he saw the spear Ali had been carrying just laying on the ground, he looked around and
noticed what appeared to be paw impressions in the ground. He then looked into the forest and growled...
Inuyasha: Dammit!
Miroku and Sango joined him, he looked at them and they knew that something bad had happened to Ali...
Miroku: what are those strange tracks...
Sango: hmmm...They look almost like...
Inuyasha: cat paws...
Sango: huh?
Miroku: are you saying cat demons came and kidnapped ali...
Inuyasha: yes, they took her to the forest...
Sango: oh no...
Inuyasha/Miroku: what!?
Sango: I remember my father saying something about a tribe of cat demons that worship some horrible demon that
rises only once during a blue moon, and these renigade cat demons must sacrifice a human to keep the master
demon from destroying them...
Miroku: and tonight's the blue moon...
Inuyasha: I'll show those stupid felines...
Kagome: I'm coming too...
Sango: we don't have much time...
Inuyasha: fine...
The four dashed into the forest, they had a short time to find the renigade cat demon tribe's den and to stop
them from sacrificing Ali, and hopefully they wouldn't have to battle the huge demon that they worshipped. It was
said to be a monster or a king of the reptiles, which didn't sound like something they wanted to be messing with
at it's hight of power...