As Mokuba pulled the long rope on the pear game, he heard a familiar giggling behind him.
"Shippo, I wanna play too! Will you go with me?" Rin asked the flustered fox.
"Uh… uh…" Shippo stammered, backing away from the girl.
"What's Rin doing here?" Mokuba wondered out loud.
"Mokuba, the rope," Rebecca reminded him as a pair of teenagers came in to bite the fruit.
"Yeah, uh, can you take over for me, Rebecca?" Mokuba asked her, handing her the rope.
"What? I'm not the one who volunteered for it! Moki! Come back!" she yelled. Behind her the teens cheered when the team mates got two huge bites out of the pear.
"Alright, now for that prize," said the young man.
"Prize?" Rebecca asked.
"That kid with the funky hair said anyone who got a bite won a prize," said his female team mate. "We won, cough up the prize!"
"I… I… uh," Rebecca stammered with a sweat drop.
Transition
Lurking in the trees and shrubbery around the people making merriment, Bast and Apothus were plotting the best way to go about destroying the shrine. At least Apothus was anyway.
"Mmmm, that stuff smells good," Bast purred, liking her lips. "I haven't sea food in ages."
"Get you mind of your sssssssstomache," Apothus whispered. "We are here to fulfill our masssster'ssssss wissssshessssss."
"Yeah yeah, I know," Bast sighed, her ears drooping. "Lemme see…" she peered through the foliage, and saw Buyou chasing a streamer. "Ah ha! A cat. Perrrrrfect."
"Hurry up you flea ridden idiot," Apothus said.
"Keep your scales on," she argued. She closed her eyes, and let out a convincing "Meow." Buyou heard the call of another cat, and came waddling over. The poor cat was so big now he could hardly move.
"Geez, what have they been feeding you?" Bast asked him when she picked him up and drew him behind the bushes.
"Meow?" Buyou replied.
"Oh, I see. Wait a minute, a dog? A dog fed you?"
"Meow," Buyou replied, pointing a chubby paw out towards the crowd.
"Sesshomaru! I'm not done with you!" yelled a man in a red kimono with long silver hair and yellow eyes.
"Ewwww! A dog demon," Bast exclaimed, then she hissed too. "I hate dogs."
"Meow," Buyou said.
"Now, my pampered friend, I want a favor," Bast said to him, looking into his eyes, "Lead me to the center of the shrine."
"Meow," Buoy said, hypnotized. Bast set him down, and she pressing her palms together, she shrunk and turned into a beautiful white Persian cat. Then, she and Buyou headed for the main house.
"My turn," Apothus said. He lifted a han,d pointing a long nailed finger to the sky, then came the sound of rattling from his mouth. In response, lizards and snakes and serpents of all kinds came creeping up out of the earth. "My sssssssservantsssssss," Apothus said, "Run thesssssse herticssssss away form thissssss ssssssshrine. Punisssssssh them for following Ra'sssssss rival!" He pointed to the crowd, and the serpents slithered and crawled forth to attack.
Transition
"ARRGHHH SNAKES!" the young girls cried.
"What?" Mrs Higurashi exclaimed.
"Snakes! That's impossible!" Gramps said, dropping the box of charms he was toting back form the shop."
"Get them off me!" cried a high schooler as he kicked a lizard off of his shoe. As the reptiles crawled over the shrine grounds, panicked people ran everywhere trying to get away. But there was no escape. They were totally surrounded.
"What is this, a demon?" Inu-yasha asked, looking around.
"No," Sesshomaru said, "You would know by the scent. This is a danger far worse than any demonic being." He reached under his long coat and pulled the Tokijen.
"Who ever you are, come out!" Inu-yasha ordered, flinging off his hat and drawing his Tetsusaiga.
"Ah, a pair of demon brothersssssss," hissed a voice from the trees. "What a wonderful challenge!" And out leaped Apothus, throwing off his cloak, his tail rattling, and his fangs dripping with venom, as his scaly hood opened.
"A cobra, quite fitting," Sesshomaru said. "You will pay for endangering my Rin."
"Ah, you are the protector of the Avatar, then!" Apothus said. "You were sssssssspoken of in my massssssster'ssssss prophessssssy."
"Hey, Are you forgettin somebody here?" Inu-yasha asked furiously. Suddenly, somebody poked hi on the shoulder. Inu-yasha turned around.
"Not really," Bast said with a smile, then she sucker punched him, sending him flying into the Sacred Tree. As Inu-yasha sat stunned, Bast walked up to him, and looming over him, she cracked her knuckles and said through gritted teeth, "I HATE dogs!"
"Now sssssshe getsssssss ssssssseriousssssss." Apothus sighed. He turned back to Sesshomaru and said, "If you wisssssh to kill me, you have but to try."
Without a word, Sesshomaru charged. Apothus turned and swung his tail, and Sesshomaru leaped out of the way, did a flip in the air, and came down behind the serpent master, who quickly ducked to avoid having his head severed by Sesshomaru's demon blade.
"Hold still!" Inu-yasha yelled, throwing punches at the cat goddess, but she dodged each one, and made faces at him to boot. That did it, Inu-yasha growled and grabbed her tail, fling her in the air by it.
"ARGGGHHH! No fair! Below the belt! Below the Belt!" screeched Bast as she was rubbed her rump.
Transition
"Inu-yasha's in trouble," Shippo said to Mokuba and Souta as the took cover behind one of the food booths. "I have to help him," he said, changing back into a fox demon.
"We're coming to," Mokuba said, "Right Souta?"
Souta hung his head then said, " I'll go get Kagome!"
"Oh no you don't," Mokuba said, grabbing him by the shirt. "You have to make a choice. Are with us or not?"
"Where's that Rin kid?" Rebecca asked.
"Huh?" everyone exclaimed.
Transition
At the Little Turtle Game Shop, Yugi was using his lap top to search every archive the Egyptian Government on Ra and his mythology, looking for a way to defeat this new menace. Suddenly, Mai's cell phone went off.
"Valentine," she said, answering it. "A big story now? Where? Sun Set WHAT!" she clicked off and said, "Guys, we got trouble."
Transition
Sesshomaru was thrown down hard to the ground, as Apothus wrapped his tail around his neck.
"You were eassssssy to defeat," Apothus said. "You sssssshould have known you could not defy the godssssssss! Dog demon!" He prepared to snap Sesshomaru's neck….
"Silpheed! Wind Whip Attack!" cried a small voice, and suddenly, a tempestuous wind swirled around the serpant, and threw him back away from his opponent.
"What! YOU!" Apothus cried.
"Leave Lord Sesshomaru alone," Rin said, "It's me you want!"
"Rin! Back!" Sesshomaru ordered.
"What's that kid doing?" Inu-yasha exclaimed as he and Bast stopped in their fight.
"It's not time yet, but if you try to him, I will reveal my true form." Rin said, her eyes glowing with intensity.
Apothus just laughed, "You cannot hurt me child. You made the ssssssame miss stake asssss Sssssset! To think the Sssssun Goddessssss would pick a child to hide her sssssssoul!"
"The what?" Inu-yasha exclaimed.
"The what?" the kids hiding behind the food cart exclaimed also.
"You have been warned, Apothus," Rin said again. This time, her hands began to shake as she lifted up another card. "Airknight Parshath! I command you to appear!" The elven warrior of light appeared, with his shining blade, he charged at the giant snake.
"Time to go!" Bast said. She grabbed Apothis by the tail, raised her hand, and fired a pulse beam at the shrine, taking down three outer walls. "That should Ra the Great happy."
"We are not done, demon dogsssssss," Apothus hissed.
"And master Ra will deal with you eventually, Amateratsu!" Bast added, sticking her tongue out. Then, they turned into two orbs of light, and flew up to the stars.
The Airknight disappeared just as Yugi, Joey, and Mai- followed by her camera crew- came running up the steps.
"Oh! We're too late," Yugi/Yami said as he beheld the devastation.
"Miss Valentine, you're on the air," said a camera man.
" Not now you idiots!" Mai said, pushing the cameras down. "Turn these stupid things off!"
"Inu-yasha!" Kagome, carrying the babies, called from the root cellar as she, her mom, and her grandpa climbed out.
"You're ok!" Inu-yasha said, hugging her.
"Look what they did to our house!" Mrs. Higurashi said, crying.
"Our family shrine is ruined!" wept Gramps.
"First Yugi's store, and now this," Joey said. "Nothin's safe with all these so called 'gods' runnin around."
"It's my fault," Rin said from behind them.
"What are you talking about, kid?" Mai asked her.
"Rin, silence," Sesshomaru commanded.
"They need the truth, M' Lord," she said. "The only reason they came back was because I'm here. When Lord Sesshomaru saved form the wolves, I entered Rin's body. I felt so sad for her…"
"And just who are you?" Yugi/Yami asked her.
"My name… was Amateratsu."