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The Unchosen Path II
Chapter 3: Complications
WindEmpress: Muwahaha! I have just gotten an idea for my next story!
Firestar: Which one? You have got like fifteen going on right now. Why so many anyway?
WindEmpress: So many because extreme boredom causes me to create new ideas. This is for the second story to Child of the Light.
Firestar: Owwhh . . . Do tell . . .
WindEmpress: Ka, its starts off . . . .
Alexia opened her eyes and pain seared to her head. She quickly closed her eyes tightly shut and begged the pain to go away: it did not, it worsened. She could feel the ground below her; wood, and a gentle breeze blew into the place she was in. (Firestar: That is scary! WindEmpress: What? Firestar: About that part in the story! WindEmpress: Ahh! I have gotta narrate this story!) Alexia moved her hand around, afraid of what she might find, with her eyes closed as she tried to make the pain go away. Her hand touched something cold and fleshy.
What is that? Alexia thought. As much as her body refused, she opened her eyes. Eternal darkness surrounded her like an abyss. As her eyes adjusted to the lack of light, she saw a body where her hand was. She shook it, but it did not move. I really hope it is not dead . . .
Her eyes adjusted to the light more and found that it was a white kimono stained with blood. Dark brown hair fell over the face of the body. Alexia's eyes widened. She crawled over to this body and shook it. "Hey . . ."
It did not move.
"Wake up!"
A twitch in its hand was all that came.
Thoughts ran through Alexia's mind. If it, the body, was really dead and this body was really Angel, then that made her the only person from her family alive.
"Please! Wake up!" With all the strength she had, shepunched it in the side.
It moved. It lifted its eyes and moved the hair from its face. Angel.
"Oh my God, I thought you were dead!" Alexia said.
Angel blinked. "I never thought you cared . . ."
"Of course I care! No matter how perverted I am, I have a heart!"
Angel nodded and smiled. "Do you remember what happened? My head is killing me and I think my leg is broken . . ."
"Ouch and I hope your leg isn't broken. My head hurts too, but I'm not broken."
"Lucky you . . ."
"You mean you seriously broke your leg?"
Angel nodded.
"Aaawww! Fudge!"
"Hey, that's my word."
"Ops."
"Along with ops. Think of your own word for oops!"
"Sorry, grumpy!"
"Do you remember what happened?" Angel asked again,"I barely remember anything after your comment . . ."
Both of them tried to think what had happened. Angel remembered nothing, but Alexia had everything rush into her mind.
"Now I remember! After I made my comment . . . Ouch," she put her hand to her head after getting up too fast, "You leaped over me and went at Kagura, taking her by surprise. She flung you off and you hit the ground and charged at Naraku. I took care of Kagura by biting her arm. I could have sworn that she didn't think that I would go after her."
"That's good to hear that you surprised her . . ."
"You should have seen her face! She was so surprised that she stumbled backwards as I went at her."
Angel smiled.
"I don't know what happened to you, but the last thing I remember was you falling down . . ."
Angel looked confused. "Falling? Falling where?"
"Falling up!"
"Seriously!"
"Okay, okay . . .Falling down the ledge. Wait . . . Not good use of grammar, fell off the ledge."
"Off? You mean like . . ."
"Yeah . . ."
"Oww . . . I hurt more now."
"Sucks to be you."
"Don't start it," Angel said putting her hand to her head. "Wait, where the hell are we?"
"Don't ask me, but I know we're not in hell."
"You sure about that?" Angel asked with a sigh in her voice. Her right leg was throbbing with every heartbeat and causing her more pain with each heartbeat. She did not remember anything about falling and she did not remember ever attacking Naraku. Stupid me! I should have known we would run into him after he has been quiet for so long!
"Believe me, I know what hell looks like," Alexia said interrupting Angel's thoughts.
"How would you know? Don't answer, we need to find a way to get out of here," Angel said trying to stand.
"Don't stand up, stupid! You said your legis broken!" Alexia said trying to help Angel, who pushed her away.
"I don't care! I can take care of myself." Right . . . Angel tried to walk, but fell back down.
"See!"
"Shut up, Keladay!"
Alexia stopped. "What did you call me?"
Angel shifted and sat up as best as she could. "I called you Alexia."
"No you didn't . . . You called me Key of Day."
"I did no such thing."
"Angel, I swear that if I was on my death bed, you said Key something."
Angel just looked at her cousin and realized that she was right. "Keladay . . . That names so familiar though. I don't know where it came from, but it's familiar."
Alexia looked a little worried. "Yeah, familiar . . ." Alexia looked around. "Angel, we can't leave."
"Why's that?"
She pointed to the door. "Because Kagura's there and your leg's broken."
"Would you-Oh, crap . . ."
Alexia sat back down. "Got any herbs around here-AHHHH! I just found a skull . . ." She lifted a yellowing skull from the ground and looked at Angel, who just stared at it. "Wait, don't tell me you want to chew on it!"
"Gross! No, I would not CHEW on it. That's worse than some of your other things and why are you even holding that thing!"
"Good point," she said looking at Angel rather than the skull. She looked back at it and dropped it saying "EWWWW!" again. Angel tried to cover her ears, but could not without losing her balance and falling back over.
Kagura moved from where she stood and saw that they were moving and still alive. Finally, they are awake. They are loud enough to wake the dead.
Hiei leaped from tree to tree, moving as fast as he could. Damm'it. The fools can barely take care of themselves and Botan wants to train them? Humans are so stupid! Hiei found Kurama leaning against a tree waiting for him to come. He leaped down from the tree he was in and landed in front of Kurama.
"You're back," Kurama said looking up from his thoughts.
"I noticed."
"Why so soon?" he asked as he walked over to Hiei.
Hiei smiled as he remembered the comment the odd one had said. "You know . . . One of those two girls said something about you when I was there . . ."
Kurama blinked. "Like . . . What?"
"She . . . Uh . . . She said . . . . . . . . .Forget it, she'll tell you it herself," he said. He didn't like saying those sort of things, especially to his closest friend.
Kurama closed his eyes and shook his head. "Anyway, you never answered my question; why are you back so soon?"
"Because of the idiot one; she decided to say something . . . Bad and the older one chased her down. I lost track of them and came to see if you found them."
"Nope, I haven't seen anything."
"Also, the black wolf that we ran into decided to . . . Shift."
"What do you mean by that?"
Hiei smiled, again. "From what I could tell, she'd lost control of her demon form and shifted. Everyone left, except for the one we talked with. She was mumbling some sort of counter curse to the demon, but it left, as did I."
Kurama folded his arms and looked up at the moon. "Couldn't you use your Jagan to find them?"
"I have to know where they're at."
(Firestar: WindEmpress! Hiei's Jagan is open! Come and get it! WindEmpress: GROSS! Hiei: What was that? Firestar: Nothing. WINDEMPRESS! HE'S GONNA KILL ME! WindEmpress: You deserve it!)
"True . . ."(WindEmpress: That came out perfect. If you don't get it, I said Firestar deserves it and Kurama says 'true'. Ha, ha?) He noticed the moon's color. "Wait, was the moon red before?"
"Like I would notice?"
"There's something wrong with this . . . Come on, we've got to find Yusuke and Kuwabara."
"Why would I want to find that idiot?" Hiei asked as Kurama left.
Aris turned around and found a girl dressed in all white behind her.
"Don't leave . . ."
Aris moved to her. "What are you doing here?"
The girl kept silent. "Your soul . . . Its so pure . . . And so powerful . . ."
She stopped. "My soul?" Does she know . . . About my heritage?
"Give me . . . Your soul . . ."
Aris' eyes widened as the girl lifted up her mirror to Aris' level. She jumped out of its way and landed to the girl's side. Damn! I should have known. Even if I'm in another era, the blood and soul I carry is something anyone would want. Damn my stupidity . . . Damn! "Listen! I don't know who the hell you are, but there's no way my soul would belong to another."
The girl turned around and in the mirror was an evil face, smiling.
Aris felt her anger overpower her. "Naraku . . ."
Naraku's smile became grander. "What a pity to see someone as powerful as you wasting your power on mortals."
Her fury was about ready to burst. "Mortals are what keep the world from dying, you bastard!"
Naraku huffed. "Such a waste . . ." His image disappeared and in its place, Aris' reflection stood.
Aris couldn't move her body and was immobilized by the mirror. She couldn't even shift to counter the effect, which was what she normally did whenever someone placed a curse on her. The girl started walking towards her.
"Give me . . . Your soul . . ."
Damn! I was tricked!
Inuyasha sniffed around trying to find the two missing girls, but each time he found their scents, the trail broke away into a completely different way. "Damm'it, I can't get a straight path."
Ken'oshi leaned against a tree and looked up at the moon. (Firestar: She wasn't with the group when Tsuki changed.) The moon was a blood red, a sure sign of blood shed. Before she could say anything, the bushes rustled and something leaped out of the forest. "Inuyasha! Look out!"
Too late, Inuyasha turned and the thing latched onto his arm with its fangs. "What the hell?" he said as he fell onto the ground. The creature moved so fast it was hard to catch a glimpse at it as it tried to tear at his throat. Inuyasha punched it and it flew to the side with a yelp. Quickly, he stood up and saw what had attacked him; a black wolf with a red circle with a star in the middle of its forehead. "Tsuki!"
"What! The curse lives on!" Ken'oshi said.
"I thought we had gotten rid of it!" Miroku said.
Tsuki laughed with a possessed voice. "You thought that the curse would leave so soon?"
"You forced her to shift!" Ken'oshi said. "The moon wasn't even red when it arose as nightfall came!"
"Of course . . . it's the perfect way for you to destroy her . . ."
"I'm really beginning to get sick of you!" Sifa said angrily.
Again Tsuki laughed, "Tsuki is not the only one who will become an empty shell tonight. Three more are still in danger."
"Three?" Sesshomaru said.
"Yes, three. Find them soon or their fate shall be lost . . ." Tsuki began to circle them, taking in a breath each time she stepped. She could smell their scent and taste their blood flowing through their veins. It was something she enjoyed whenever she hunted prey of any sort.
Sifa realized who the three were. "What have you done with them!"
Tsuki laughed. "Two are together and the other is about to lose their soul, but its too late to save her."
"You monster!" Sifa transformed to her tiger form and leaped at Tsuki, but Tsuki leaped out of her way and knocked the tiger to the ground. The wolf, no longer Tsuki, bit into the tiger's leg as the second attacked her from the side.
"You've messed with the wrong people, Yoru!"
"Then kill your precious apprentice! She messed with my affairs and deserves to die like the rest of you!"
"And what of the other two, do they deserve to die!" Inuyasha said.
The wolf was silent for a minute as she stared Inuyasha. Taking advantage of the moment, Sifa leaped up and knocked the wolf down, but she stood up and stared at each one. "Naraku has plans for them, indeed. Do not fear, their fate is to destroy all of you with the powers you've given them . . ."
"If I don't find a way to get out of here I swear I'll scream like a banshee!" Angel said. She made a fist and punched at the stone wall, but recoiled at the pain. "Ye-ouch!"
"Nice, you idiot," Alexia said from her corner where she sat. She sighed and put her head to her knees. "Why will you scream like a banshee?" she asked lifting her head up again.
Angel, supporting herself with the wall, looked around. "Knowing that Naraku has some devious plan going on through his hallow skull that has to do with us gives me the heebie-jeebies." She went to walk on her broken leg again and fell back onto the ground.
"Would you quit! If you keep trying to walk on it, its only going to stay broken and you'll become a cripple!" And I thought I was the mental one around here. True, she was the younger and Angel was the older, but who was really the smarter one right now?
"What, did you earn a degree in the medical field?" Angel said standing up.
"Yeah . . . For mentality and sexuality."
Angel rolled her eyes. "Nice . . . Just what I needed to hear."
"Well, you asked!"
Angel sighed and leaned against the wall with her back. She slid down and sat onto the ground. "If I would have known that I would wake up and find that this was going to happen to me a year ago, I would have worked on my escape-artist techniques long before now."
"I didn't know you were an escape-artist. . . . . WHAT ELSE ARE YOU NOT TELING ME!"
Angel groaned. "For one thing, I'm not an escape-artist, and another thing, I AM STILL A VIRGIN THANK YOU VERY MUCH!"
Alexia stared at her. "Wow . . . . Still a virgin at the age of fourteen . . . . Wow . . . ."
Angel was confused. "What was that?"
Alexia cleared her throat like she was a professional. "Most teenagers have a hormone rush-"
"Oh, God, Alexia! I don't want to hear this lecture! I've already had to listen to it every year since fifth grade!"
"Many will lose their virginity before they graduate high school-"
Angel put her hand on Alexia's mouth. "I already know. I don't need to-EWW! GROSS!"
Alexia had stuck her tongue out and licked Angel's hand to make her mad. "I evil . . ."
THUNK!
"Oww! Angel . . . Why'd you do that?"
She had crossed her arms and wasn't looking at her. "You deserved it, along with everything else you've said so far."
"Oh . . ."
Angel was getting really annoyed at what was happening to them. If it wasn't one thing, it sure was something else. She sighed and looked at the room; stones for the wall, a few bones laying around, and grayness. Damm'it . . .
Alexia wasn't feeling any better. She knew that if Angel hadn't broken her leg, the would have found a way out. (Firestar: Light bulb!) Suddenly, Alexia had an idea. "Angel," she whispered, "I've got an idea!"
WindEmpress: God . . . That stupid lecture . . .
Firestar: Hey, its very, very, very, very, very . . . I can't think of the word right now . . . .
WindEmpress: (silent)
Firestar: Educational! There it is!
Prep: You don't know anything about education.
Firestar: Yeah, and you do? The education of males?
Prep: Yeah, you and a lamppost
WindEmpress: (looks at Firestar) OKAY! YOU'RE DYIN' YOUNG! (leaps at Prep)
Prep: (screams) Watch the nails. OH, MY GOSH! MY ARM JUST FELL OFF
WindEmpress: Your head's next!
Kurama: (after WindEmpress kills prep) You know Koenma's going to kill you for that . . .
Firestar: Oh, now YOU'RE a fortune teller?
Sorry, folks, this is a really short chapter. I'm sure the next one will be longer . . . I hope . . .
