A/N: Just the usual stuff (bad grammar, yadda, yadda, yadda… English isn't my native language). Standard disclaimer applies.
Chapter #2:
Enters the fairies!... and the disaster it's on its way.
From a nearby tree, a bunch of fairies watched in disapproval Kikyou's leaving, angered at what she had said about them. A fairy, a blonde one, attempted to go after her to give her what she deserved, but…
"Calm down, Marina: That woman doesn't worth your wrath, she's not at your level, don't low yourself: besides, she's already doomed by now." A voice said behind her. "She isn't even alive!"
"My Lady Titania!" Replied the fairy, clenching her hands. "I'll not stand that 'IT' speaks in such rough manner of You and us! Did you saw what she had done to that poor maiden? And to the dog-boy? That is… unspeakable!."
"I'm mad, just like you." Titania said. "But I tell you, we'll waste our valuable time and power if we curse her. We have other things to do… like help the ones that she wants to see apart. We must help those two to end up together, or else, we'll not deserve to be call fairies!." Sentenced Titania, with glowing eyes. She sighed and added. "That story reached us in our homeland, and already has too many ups and downs: The hanyou and the young miko are a match made in heaven and need their happiness, not a dead miko who ran away from the Banshees. Those Two Will Ended Up Together By This Weekend Or I'll Change My Name To 'Mud'!." Said Titania starting to fly. "Come Fairies! We had work to do!."
an explanation later
"… And that's it, my lord, what had happened until now." Finished Puck.
"Well! It isn't unrequited love, as I first thought, but the most pure kind of it! and the strongest!… Feh! I'm getting rusty at scanning hearts"
"The reality justifies the story, my lord: The boy is too proud to admit his feelings." Said Puck. "But he loves the girl who released him from the arrow more than his own life. The girl is his fortress, his home." Puck said with shimmering eyes. "She's got to be a piece of a girl!."
"What? You didn't saw her? She was here just a minute ago."
"Nope, I didn't."
"And how do you know that the girl who was here is the girl of which you were telling me just now?."
":ahem: Well, The girl from my story got a very special magic on her. A powerful magic and aura. What I saw was the shadow of two friends comforting each other, and one of them with this special magic within… beside, you were playing with their two-tailed kitten… AND, lady Titania and her fairies are in these woods."
Lord Oberon pondered about the situation for a moment. Well, for a second…
"PUCK! I must to do something! I will not stay still when two lovers, are blinded by their own proud, stubbornness and fear!"
"You mean, you figured out the best way of made up with milady!"
"PUCK! The flower!"
"Which flower?."
":sighs: Remember those four lovers from Athens? Those who ran into our forest, following theirs hearts, chasing their loves ones?."
":thinks: The time when you made Lady Titania fell in love with a man turned into an Ass?."
"Exactly." Oberon got serious. "Listen to me well, Puck, very well, because I want no mistakes this time, LIKE THAT TIME." He stressed. "Confuse the roads and the orientation sense of every single soul within the forest, make them being alone and make everybody to get lost. Then, use a sleeping spell and make them sleep, close the forest for those who try to get inside and bring me two Cupid's Flower to me, only me, and the cure too (I'll keep that)."
"Anything else, my lord?"
"Yes, you'll not use it until I tell you. Got it?." Oberon stressed his last order more intensely.
":thinks: I put the fairies to sleep too?." Oberon bumped Puck on his head.
"You idiot. I don't want to piss Titania the more with me! No thanks!. Besides, You could not do that." Oberon climbed up the tree, to watch the sunset. "The sun is setting. What are you waiting Puck? An Invitation? Go!."
"Fast like the wind, my lord!."
"Yeah, right."
Shippo pulled Inu-Yasha's ears very angry. Obviously, the hanyou, being bad tempered, and being a little touchy at the moment because of certain close encounter with Kikyou, grabbed the little kitsune by his tail and throw him to the floor.
"STOP YOUR WHINNING, BRAT: I'M NOT IN THE MOOD!."
"OOOOooowww!… Grrrrr… You deserve it for make Kagome cry, you jerk!."
BOMP
"AND WHO MADE HER CRY!."
"You." Miroku answered him, very calmly, from his resting spot. "You know: She was very hurt." Inu-Yasha looked at the Houshi, without making any sound or question, because the answer intimidated him. But the monk caught up with that and answered his unasked question. "Yes. She saw you and Kikyou… for a change."
"Damn It! Kikyou Only Give Me Troubles!."
"As every Ex. If you ask me, you should go to get them."
"Them?."
"Sango is with her. :glance at the sunset: And they're already late, it's getting dark: I suggest you to go for them."
"And why you don't go for them?."
"Because the point here is that YOU go." Added Shippo, jumping into his head again to resume his beating. "And while you are at it, apology Kagome and tell her that you love her!." Bad move, Shippo-chan!
BOMP, BOMP, BOMP
"OOOOooouuch!."
"Shippo is right." Said Miroku. Inu-Yasha stood up, determined to take the frustration out of his chest and…
In that very moment, a weird magic descended upon them. Puck had started his mission.
"On Guard! Alert Everybody!." Grunted the hanyou, grabbing his sword. ":growls: This magic feels funny, We Need Kagome!" The hanyou sniffed the air, looking something that he couldn't find. "Grrr! I can't smell a damn thing: Miroku, what about you? Do you sense something?… Miroku… Miroku?."
Inu-Yasha assumed a fight stance when he noticed that the funny magic as he put it, actually changed everything around him. In matter of seconds, his surroundings were drastically different and… suddenly he was alone. Miroku wasn't there, neither Shippo. Always on full alert, he started to look for his friends, yelling their names occasionally, in vain. He worried, mostly about Kagome, whom was alone in some place, probably scared to death and possibly walking into the lion's mouth… He begin to imagine Kagome being eaten by a huge, merciless and lusty youkai. He shuddered and sought harder. Well, that thought that she was with Sango calmed him a bit, but… he better hurried.
When Inu-Yasha warned them about the 'funny magic', and when he finally felt it, Miroku knew that a LONG night was lying ahead of him. He heard Inu-Yasha warning for a moment, but… just like Inu-Yasha, he found himself alone, like in his old days. Frowning, he grabbed his Shajaku and started to look for his friends, feeling the urgency in find them as fast as possible…
Shippo suppressed a tear and hugged himself, sobbing uncontrollably. The poor little puppy was suddenly alone in a forest too big for his little size, and his friends, bigger and stronger than him, weren't inside the range of his neither nose nor eyes. The worst thing was that he was in a different place. An unknown place. Gathering all of his courage, he started to walk, hoping to find Kagome by doing that… and suppressing his wails.
":grin: Two to go." Muttered Puck to himself.
Three people were already lost, confuse and worried enough to look for each other… and considering the purpose of his spell, they were getting terribly lost by doing that. Puck continued his mission.
Titania stopped flying in the moment she felt the magic descending upon the forest. She landed on a branch nearby, like the others fairies, and paid attention. She scowled at this, knowing who the mastermind was after it.
"Fairies." She said. "Lord Oberon is in the forest. Damn It! He's going to ruin everything!" Titania didn't look happy. "Let's visit him."
Sesshomaru stared at sky and he also scowled at the feeling he was getting. He twisted his tail nervously, he didn't like the fact of weird magic falling upon him, and hated the magic that was falling down upon Rin. The arrogant Taiyoukai stopped.
"Stay close, Rin." He said.
Silence. Silence?
All this time with Rin by his side, had taught him that at the sound of his voice, the little girl would always squeal in delight and run to his side to hug his legs. But this time, nothing of that happened. He turned on his heels, determined to know what was going on with Rin… or Jaken… the little toad always quacked at his voice, but not precisely in delight, but in fear.
He noticed the problem immediately: nobody was following him.
"Rin?… Rin!… Jaken!."
Sesshomaru grunted. To his surprise, he got worried about the little girl's whereabouts. Since Naraku had kidnapped her, he didn't like the fact of her being alone, besides, she was but a little filly, it was already dark and she was missing her bedtime (not that he cared). Cursing his luck, he started to look for his adopted human cub…
Kagome felt the magic falling down upon them, and tried to get a hold onto Sango's arms, but, just like her friends, she discovered that it was too late. She was alone, sad and abandoned to her luck… for a change.
"Sango, you are there?." She called. No answer. "Somebody?". Silence. Kagome hugged herself. "Just what I need it, I get lost again. Inu-Yasha!"
The girl called the hanyou, but the forest returned the call without getting an answer. She heard a faint cry in the distance… and started to follow it…
Sango hugged Kirara anxiously. She didn't like this kind of situations, mostly when they came after an encounter with Naraku, Kikyou or another of the hanyou's relatives for that matter (read 'Sesshomaru'). Without letting go of the kitten, and ready to use her Hiraikotsu in any minute, she started to look for her missing friends…
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I NEVER THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!." Naraku laughed very amused.
The situation was a piece of jewelry for him, despite the fact that everything he knew about it, was what Kanna was showing him trough her mirror. He knew that someone with magic was splitting apart his favorites victims, that they were worried, scared and looking for each other with no luck at all, he was amused.
The best thing was that Sesshomaru was caught unwillingly in the mess too, and eventually, and if he was lucky, he and Inu-Yasha will bump into each other, they'll and ended up killing one another for the last time… Kanna 'closed' the mirror.
"Don't stop, Kanna: I want to know what happen next!."
After he finished, Puck watched at his deed with proud: everybody in the forest were lost, and thinking the worst. It was time for him to spread the sleep, just like Oberon had ordered him. In no time, he spread the deep sleep spell and when he finished, everybody, including Sesshomaru, slowly fell to the ground sleeping against his or her will. Then, he left the forest in order to get Cupid's flower. A fairy appeared in front of him.
"What are you doing, Puck, confusing these mortals?." She asked. ":raise eyebrow: And putting them to sleep?." she added warily.
"I'm obeying lord Oberon's orders, my fair fairy."
"Which are…?
"That's a secret."
"Lady Titania noticed your magic, and she on her way to meet Oberon."
"Then, he'll answer all of the fairies questions!. Now, if you excuse, I got to leave. Good bye!."
"Where are you going?."
"To get Cupid's Flower." Answered Puck with a grin before left. The fairy face faulted.
"Cupid's flower? THE Cupid's Flower? Oh My! That's bad!. Lady Titania must to know this!." She said as she left looking for her lady.
Now things were getting interesting. When he felt when Puck finished the first part of his mission, Oberon smiled to himself, proud that his reckless and mischief servant was doing what he was said. He was in that, when a sweet voice called him from behind.
"Why did you order Puck to confuse the mortals and sent the sleep spell over them, Oberon? What are your intentions?." Asked Titania very angry.
"My Fair Lady Titania. Do you remember the Athens's lovers?." Asked Oberon. "The ones that ran away the night before Theseus' wedding?" Titania raised a brow, and shuddered at the memory of the Ass.
"Of course. :stares: Are you going to do what I think you are going to do?."
"Half of it is already done." Said Oberon triumphantly. "I don't think that bothers you: You and your fairies are going to help me with this?."
"Why should I?."
"Because I need information!." Said Oberon with a cajoling voice. In that moment, Puck arrived.
"My lord, the flowers. Mission accomplished!."
"Look for the boy, then… :stares seductively at Titania: How is that rascal?." He asked, picking Cupid flower's and the antidote.
"He's a Hanyou." Titania said slowly. "Half dog, half human, white hair and cute dog-like ears on the top of his head, red clothing, rusty Katana." Said Titania. "Make him fell in love with the black haired girl, with strange clothing, the one with the powerful magic and aura. And… use the cupid's flower on the Houshi's eyes also, and make him fall in love with the two-tailed cat's master." Ordered Titania. Puck smiled and looked at Oberon.
"You heard the lady." Said Oberon. "And let the magic flows. BUT, left the illusion upon the forest until dawn. Just in case." He added showing his fist. Titania started to fly away. "Where you go, my lady?."
"I'm still mad at you. I'll help, but I'll be in another location: If this work, maybe I forgive you." She said as she left the spot.
When the fairy got a lot far away from Oberon, she landed in the first clear she saw, along with her fairies. She waited until her messenger came into view, which arrived rather agitated.
"My Lady! The Cupid's Flower!."
"I know :sigh: This is going to finish in a BIG FIASCO, even bigger then the last back at Athens, I feel it in my bones!." The Queen Fairy got really serious and ghostly. "Fairies: we're being watched by an evil force. You, bring to me the Flower of Truth as soon as you can!."
"At once!." Said the Fairy.
"You two, there are two scared little children lost in the forest, look for them and take care of them: They are a Kitsune cub and a human girl. The rest of you, follow me."
"To where?."
"To Italy."
"Italy!"
Naraku raised a brow as he stopped his laughter. He took a deep breath and crossed his arms.
"So, this 'Titania' knows that I'm watching them." He muttered somewhat amused. "Who is she? This Fairy?… Hmpf… never heard of her before… Anyways, she's right, this is going to get into a really BIG MESS. But you don't have the slightest idea!
To be Continued…
By
Misao-CG
PS: I don't know how is it until here, but if this is boring, please, check at the next chapter, is funnier. Or at least that is what my cousin told me.
…I almost forget!… Damn it! This is important!
… In Shakespeare's play, the Cupid's Flower (a red one) is the flower which caused the whole mess in his story: When you put a drop of the flower's nectar in the eyes of somebody who is sleeping, he/she will fell in love REALLY HARD with the first living being of the opposite sex she/he sees after awaken. Don't worry, there is a cure for this! But the Flower of Truth got nothing to do with it!
Enjoy!
