Roar of the Dragon: Well, here is the start of the sequel to A Dream Is a Wish. Hope all my previous readers will enjoy this story as much as my first one.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, Tenchi Muyo!, Oh My Goddess!, Ranma ½, or Naruto! I do own all the original characters from my previous story and the new ones mentioned in the previous character bios.
AN: the following symbols indicate the enclosed type of action/speech
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"Are you kids sure you have everything you'll need?" asked Kagome. Kimiko sighed and pulled out a checklist from her pocket. "Yes mom, I've gone through all the packs three times and so have the others. We're going to spend a month in the feudal era camping and relaxing to kick off our summer vacation. Rin and Shippo will be with us to keep us safe and we are all strong enough to handle ourselves in a fight against common youkai!" said Kimiko as she rolled her eyes at her mother's protective instincts. Kagome started to open her mouth again but was interrupted by Inuyasha placing his hand over the opening. "Your mother is just worried about you, my time is a lot more dangerous than this one. Just keep your wits about you and trust your instincts and you'll be fine. If you guys need help you can always go to Mirouku and Sango or your Uncle Sesshomaru and Aunt Lina," said Inuyasha. Kimiko grinned and slipped on her backpack before grabbing her bags and running outside to join her friends by the well house. Miyuki, Akira, and Ryeka all had packs on their backs and one or two duffel bags in their hands. Ren-oh-ki was perched on Ryeka's shoulder and munching on a large carrot while Ryeka talked with Miyuki. The Satome girl was in her cursed form and idly scratching Flamie's head just behind his ears. All three of the waiting teens looked up when they heard Kimiko exit the house and Flamie ran up to his mistress and rubbed against her leg. Kimiko smiled and patted her pet on his head. "You guys ready to go?" asked Kimiko with a grin. After receiving nods from each of her friends, Kimiko lead the way to the well house and jumped into the well. A flash of purple light later and Kimiko was at the bottom of the Bone Eater's well in Feudal Japan.
Kimiko jumped out of the well quickly to find Shippo, Rin, and Hiryuu waiting for her with their own bags and packs. Ryeka levitated herself, Ren-oh-ki, and Flamie out of the well, the two pets immediately running over to Kudora and nuzzling each other to say 'hello' Akira was the next person to make it out with a powerful jump, followed by his sister, who sniffed deeply as she landed. "So this is what Japan would smell like without all the pollution and smog," she said with a smile. Kimiko smiled and said, "Yeah, the first time I left here to enter modern Japan I was disgusted by the smells and started crying. Oka-san had to pinch my nose to stop me from crying." Shippo grinned and said, "I still remember that day, you were only three days old and already as big as I was back then. You started crying when Jiji-san tried to make funny faces to make you laugh so dad tried to kill him. Then you said you first words, 'Ramen mine!' after you broke into the cupboard where obaasan keeps the ramen packets and Oka-san told you to let go of the ramen!" Kimiko glared at her older brother while Rin, Akira, and Ryeka started chuckling at the mental image Shippo's words painted for them. Miyuki joined Kimiko in glaring at her older sibling, showing a solid younger sibling alliance that would spell trouble for Shippo and Akira later.
"I still don't see why we had to bring the toad," said Akira as he glanced back at Jaken who was being dragged along by Aun-Un. The two headed dragon had been drafted by Rin to carry packs and bags with Jaken to supervise, or in this case provide entertainment for the whole group. It didn't help that Shippo and Kimiko had gotten tired of his constant complaints about babysitting them and duct tapped his mouth shut after tying the reigns of the two headed dragon around Jaken's feet and taking away his staff. "Because he is going to take Aun-Un back to Uncle Fluffy's palace after we unload everything," said Kimiko. Miyuki glanced down from the tree branches that she was jumping along above everyone else and said, "How much farther do you want to go today? I can smell a hot spring nearby and a large river. It is a perfect spot to make camp to, nice flat clearing with plenty of tall trees." Kimiko glanced at the other members of the group and received a nod from each of them before calling out, "Okay Miyuki, we'll set up there!" Flamie, Kudora, and Ren-oh-ki ran ahead of the group to prowl around the clearing and make sure there weren't any rodents around to bother the kids. Akira and Hiryuu set up the tents while Kimiko and Miyuki gathered fire wood. Shippo lit a fire with fox fire and started cooking some fish Rin and Ryeka caught. Everyone enjoyed the fish dinner and settled down for the evening. There was one tent for the girls and one for the two boys, while Shippo and Rin were old enough to share a tent (AN: No, they didn't do any naughty stuff you Hentai!) while the pets curled up beside their master. The only sounds to disturb the night where Ryeka giggling in her sleep as Kimiko and Miyuki's tails tickled her. Jaken spent the night tied to a tree upside down, guarded by Aun-Un to prevent his escape.
The next two days passed much the same, until the group reached the valley Kimiko had picked for their permanent camp site. The campsite was located a short distance from a beautiful waterfall that flowed into a deep pool and from there into a stream. A convenient hot spring gave the girls a place to bathe while the boys fished for dinner in the stream. The group was just getting ready to sit down to dinner when Ryeka spotted something in the sky. "Look, a shooting star! It looks like it is going to pass right over our heads!" she said.
Everyone looked up to see a large shooting star as Ryeka had said. The star seemed to be growing larger and larger. "Is it just me or is that thing glowing green?" asked Shippo. "It isn't just you, I see a definite green glow, but it is more like the aura of the Shikon Jewel than anything else." Shippo followed the path the meteor would take and his eyes widened as he saw it growing bigger and bigger. "Umm, I think that meteor is actually going to hit somewhere nearby! Don't you guys hear that faint whistling sound that is growing louder?" he asked. Miyuki, Rin, and Kimiko all nodded, quickly trying to tell where the meteor was going to hit. The blazing rock shot over the group's campsite and out of sight but not hearing. Everyone threw themselves down on the ground as Akira yelled, "Brace for impact!" Kimiko had barely enough time to put up a barrier around the campsite with her miko powers before the night was illuminated by a gigantic green flash as the meteor hit the ground in the next valley. Rin, Miyuki, Kimiko, and Shippo all winced as the sound of the impact reached them and hurt their sensitive ears. Akira, Ryeka, and Hiryuu weren't affected as much by the noise, though Ren-oh-ki used her paws to muffle her ears. The earth shook slightly from the force of the impact, causing Flamie to bury his head under Kimiko's tail and whimper. After the shaking stopped, the kids went to investigate, followed by Jaken at a distance in case of danger.
A quick thirty minute hike into the next valley and the group was able to see the green glow that had first caught Ryeka's attention. A glowing green crystal rock about the size of Shippo when he first met Kagome and Inuyasha rested in the middle of a deep crater. Ryeka formed and fired and energy blast at the meteor, blinking in surprise as the blast was absorbed and the glow flared up for a second before returning to a steady brightness. Kimiko, Shippo, Rin, and Miyuki all sniffed the air for any dangerous gases or elements in the meteor. Since their noses didn't pick anything up, the teens did the next logical thing in a situation where they didn't know if something was safe to approach, throw Jaken onto it. When the little toad didn't burst into flames or fall over dead, the teens decided it was safe to approach the glowing meteor. Jaken scrambled away before they could think of using him for any more safety tests but stopped at the edge of the large clearing the meteor had created from the heat of impact. The teens stood around the rock in a circle, Flamie, Ren-oh-ki, and Kudora all perching on their respective owner's shoulder. Shippo and Akira tried to lift the giant crystal, only to find it was so heavy they couldn't budge it. As Shippo stood up from the attempt, his copy of the latest Naruto manga slipped out of his pocket and landed on the meteor. Shippo reached for his book since he didn't want the pages to get dirty before he had a chance to read them. Before the kitsune's hand could grasp the book, the green glow intensified suddenly and a huge wind seemed to spring up around the group. The manga flipped open and the wind ruffled the pages to a page featuring Naruto and his sensei Jiraiya returning to Konoha after their three year training trip. The manga started glowing and a tornado seemed to appear from the book. Shippo stared at the tornado in shock before realizing that it was sucking him into itself. "Shippo!" yelled Rin as she grabbed her boyfriend to try to pull him away, only to find her being pulled in also. The teens all tried to run, but the wind sucked them all in. Jaken was able to grab and hold onto a tree trunk and so saved himself. The little toad stared in shock as the tornado died down and disappeared as the book closed. The green glow surrounding the meteor disappeared, but even with no light Jaken could tell that his charges were not to be found.
Kimiko yelped as the tornado tossed her into Miyuki. The hanyou grabbed her friend's arm and then snagged Hiryuu with her tail as he zipped past her clutching Kudora. Flamie had climbed into Kimiko's haori for safety, leaving her other arm free to latch onto Hiryuu's arm. Kimiko could see her friends all linking arms and yelled, "Everyone just hang on!" Finally they all managed to link up. Akira had Miyuki's other arm with Ryeka next to him. Rin had Ryeka's other arm grasped in her tail, while her arms were locked around Shippo's. Shippo had a hold of Hiryuu with his tails, but he knew he couldn't hold on forever. "What the heck is going on?" yelled Akira. "I think I've felt something like this before when Grandma Washu opened a warp hole to another dimension!" called Ryeka. Shippo suddenly felt his tails loosing their grip on Hiyruu. At the same time, Rin's grip on Ryeka and Akira's grip on Kimiko broke. Everyone struggled to maintain their holds, but the wind proved to be to strong. Kimiko, Hiryuu, and Miyuki were flung one way while Akira and Ryeka shot off in a different direction, as were Rin and Shippo. "Onii-chan!" yelled Kimiko and Miyuki as they watched their brothers disappear. Two answering shouts of "Imouto!" were heard as they lost sight of everybody. Miyuki managed to grab onto Hiryuu and the three teens held each other tight as they felt the wind start to die down. Kimiko's last sight was of her friends clinging desperately to her before everything went black.
Jaken, meanwhile, had carefully grabbed the Naruto manga and ran to Aun-Un. The little toad rode to Sesshomaru's castle as fast as he could; worried that he would have Sesshomaru and Inuyasha after his head for allowing their little girls to disappear like this. Upon reaching the castle, Jaken found Sesshomaru and Lina on top of one of the towers staring in the direction of the meteor. "Jaken, what are you doing back here?" asked Lina with a frown. Jaken jumped to the ground at Sesshomaru's feet and quickly told the two what had happened. Lina's face grew pale and Sesshomaru started cursing under his breath near the end of the tale. "Ryeka was right, I thought I felt a dimensional rip being created. But it happened so fast I couldn't pinpoint where it was," said Lina. The demi-goddes youkai carefully picked up the book and a blue light surrounded the manga. "I can feel their life force sealed inside this book, they are all there. But I can't bring them back," gasped Lina. Sesshomaru punched a small dragon statue on the corner of the tower, turning it into fine dust. "Then how do we get them out?" he growled. "I don't know…" said Lina, but whatever she was about to say after that was unheard by Sesshomaru as he stormed down the stairs and into his office. When Lina went to try to console her mate, she found her request for him to listen and talk to her denied by the crashing of something heavy on the shoji door. Her continued requests were met with stony silence and Lina became upset. Sesshomaru was usually very open with her, and this side of her mate didn't seem to care that Lina was in despair over the loss of Rin and her friends.
"Jaken, I am going to ask my parents and aunt in the future for help as well as inform Kagome, Inuyasha, Mirouku, and Sango about this development. When my mate calms down and will listen to reason, tell him to call me from Kagome's house." Said Lina as she exited the castle and prepared to take off. Jaken nodded, knowing that Lina would do everything in her power to return Rin and the other children to their rightful places. Lina's wings sprouted from her back and she took off, flying as fast as she could to the village. There she found Mirouku and Sango. After hearing a quick summary, the couple immediately followed Lina to the well and helped her break the unhappy news to Kagome and Inuyasha. Kagome left a note for her son Tadao, who was spending the day at a friend's house, and her mother explaining what was going on and called the Saotome and Misaki families to tell them what had happened. Lina had already called her mother on her cell phone and Belldandy told them to all meet at the Morisato residence. A quick drive in the family van had everyone at the temple/house where they hoped they could figure out some way to bring the lost children back. Washu and Skuld had already started discussing the different ways such an event could occur while Urd called Yggdrasil for any help they could give. Urd finally hung up the phone and went to talk with Skuld and Washu. The three soon exited Skuld's lab and asked everyone to gather outside where there was enough room for everyone. "Okay, we've figured out that we can duplicate the accident easily," said Skuld as she glanced at a page full of notes. "Great, so when can we get our kids back?" asked Ryoko nervously. Washu sighed and said, "That's the problem, even with both Skuld and I working together it will take a month to build a machine that will allow us to bring the kids back." As the faces of all the moms in the room paled, Urd spoke up. "Kami-sama did figure out a way to allow us to make sure the kids know we are working on bringing them back. Belldandy will go to the dimension they got sucked into to grant a wish to an individual there that Kimiko will be with at the time. Belldandy will explain what has happened and ensure all the kids are safe for the time being before she will return here." All the parents looked relieved and relaxed. Skuld started flipping through the Naruto manga and gasped as she found a panel featuring Kimiko, Hiryuu, and Miyuki talking to an older Naruto and his teacher Jiraiya. (AN: They are only going to be showing up in the pages of this particular Naruto manga, not the thousands of copies printed and shipped around the world) Upon seeing this, Belldandy went to Yggdrasil to confirm that Naruto was going to be the one to receive the wish. Now all they had to do was wait for the boy to pick up a phone and make a call.
Well, hope the first chapter wasn't to short, I'm working on the second chapter now, but my family is going to LA for Christmas. I should be back around New Years with at least chapter 2 finished, probably three since I get to bring my laptop and type up all my ideas during the trip. Don't worry, I have through chapter 4 outlined and the rest of the chapters should be longer than this one. Sayonora till next time everyone!