Chapter Eighteen: Discovery
Hmmm…I can't think of much to say. Anyway, please enjoy this chapter here, and it signals the end of this three chapter part.
Chapter Eighteen
"What pity, hanyou," the demon with purple streaks on his face spoke sarcastically closing his eyes. "To oppose the power of Akumaru is to mean certain death, even for a demon."
"Pah! Shut up, old demon!" Inuyasha sneered back, obviously looking down on any demon who called him a hanyou. "It's you who is going down!"
Without warning, the half-demon felt a sudden current of wind surged across him when suddenly blood spurted out from his side. In his eyes were just signs of shock.
Impossible…how did he do it?
"You cannot defeat the ancient technique of kazejutsu," Akamaru replied back arrogantly at the half-demon who collapsed on his knees. "With a powerful chant, the wind can be summoned at high speed enough to be like a sword blade."
"Kusou…" Inuyasha got up from the white snow, the red drops of blood dripping distinct from his red coat. He stared angrily at his opponent with the fierce glare of his amber eyes. "Is this all temee got?" Akamaru the old weasel demon stood firmly without being daunted by the half-demon's aggressiveness.
"Shut up, hanyou, you have no right to reply back in such a condition," the demon responded sinisterly. Bringing forward a hand full of claws and glowing with a purple aura the same colour as the streaks on his face, he prepared to give a final blow.
"Prepare to die, together with your ningen lover."
A purifying arrow broke the summoning up. Akamaru the demon looked at his second attacker, a priestess with brown straw and pointing an arrow at him. The first arrow shot had pierced through his hand.
"That was really foolish, priestess," he sounded back to Kikyo. "So what she said was true. Your power is waning."
"She?" Kikyo shouted back still aiming the arrow at him. "What do you mean by she?"
"Of course it's me, he is mentioning."
Kikyo recognized the voice instantly. She looked at the source to find a certain dark priestess appearing from nowhere with several snakes wrapping around her body. Her hair was always black and flowing, with the same sinister smile pasted on her visage.
"Did…did you two planned all this?" The holy priestess questioned. The other priestess gave a small evil chuckle and cuddled one snake with a hand.
"Of course it is only me who had planned it," she replied back and pointing a finger to the old demon beside her. "He is only my pawn."
"You are just going down, Tsubaki," Kikyo replied back without bothering to find out and shot an arrow towards the dark priestess. Tsubaki closed her eyes and chanted which made the snakes around her hiss with jaki. A pink sphere-like barrier surrounded her and Akamaru. Before the arrow could pierce the barrier, it was simply bounced off by it.
"Your powers have waned, Kikyo," she replied back to the priestess who overwhelmed by her failure to pierce the barrier which was supposedly an easy task for her in past battles. "Now you cannot even pierce such a simple barrier. How are you going to keep the sacred jewel at this rate?"
"A corrupted priestess like you will never deserve the jewel!" Came the holy priestess' reply. "The world will become a worsened place if you were to possess it!"
"Yare yare," Tsubaki questioned Kikyo's comment. "And a priestess who has devoted her heart to a hanyou doesn't deserve the jewel too…and it seems that the curse really does affect you after all." She gave a wider evil grin to the priestess with the bow and arrow.
"Kikyo!" Inuyasha shouted to the priestess who turned her head to look at the injured half-demon who had stained the white with blood distinctly. "Don't give in to her! She's trying to deceive you."
But Tsubaki's right after all…
Kikyo thought for a long moment, with the only sound coming from Tsubaki's sinister chuckle. She lowered her arrow and then her bow, looking down at the snow she was stepping on. A dark look on her face as her fringe blocked out her eyes, Kikyo gave an abrupt smile to her face.
"It doesn't matter who has the sacred jewel," she replied back strangely and looked up at the dark priestess. "I may have broken my principles as a celibate priestess, but as long as I can protect it from harm, it doesn't matter."
Tsubaki gave a slight back step, her eyes in fear of the priestess who had suddenly become strong. "Y-you had better give me the jewel," she exclaimed back in sudden shock and anger. "Akamaru, kill that priestess!" She pointed a finger at the priestess.
"A mere demon will not stop me from protecting the jewel," Kikyo raised her head up quickly and raised her bow pointing her arrow at the demon who had used the other hand to whip up another current wind which also affected the snow on the ground. She released the arrow from the bow at full length with it glowing with a blue aura.
Akamaru watched as his attack was easily destroyed by the glowing arrow. It was not long before the arrow hit his chest suddenly. As the arrow glowed bluish, the demon it had pierced into had a blue aura around him too. Within seconds, he had disintegrated into bits of black dust.
"Rest in peace, old demon," Kikyo spoke back in a few words. She pointed the next arrow at the dark priestess, locking her eyes into a stare. "It's your turn next."
"I won't be easily defeated by you!" Tsubaki began to make another chant closing her eyes and placing two fingers before her mouth. A white glow began to emanate from her body as she smiled again. "I'll see you sometime again!"
In a flash, the dark priestess had disappeared into oblivion. Kikyo lowered her bow and looked at the suddenly tranquil area before noticing that the half-demon did not seem to have a presence anywhere. She looked around frantically before catching something buried in the snow which had been whipped out through Akamaru's attack. A certain piece of red cloth once again appeared above the snow level.
The priestess rushed to wipe away the cold snow with her bare hands. The half-demon was in the snow indeed, but still breathing away. After all, a demon would be immune to many illnesses, let alone frostbite. Kikyo just gave a small smile in her face among the cold and perpetually calm look she had always expressed before changing it into a small frown again.
Kikyo looked up at the blue sky where the clouds were shape-shifting. It was indeed a beautiful day to return to the village.
Or was it?
"Akamaru failed to defeat the priestess?" a small spider demon perched on a small rock spoke, with the infamous Tsubaki standing near it. "Kukukuku. I should have known."
"What do you propose then?" Tsubaki looked at the spider demon angrily. "After all, it was you who had created the plan to force Akamaru to attack that wretch." The spider demon sat there and looked evilly at the dark priestess.
"What are you up to your tricks again?" She questioned back angrily, pulling up the spider demon. It knew that Tsubaki was far more superior in power than itself.
"Calm down, priestess," it replied back to the irritated priestess. "I have another plan." It crawled from Tsubaki's arm to her ear, and whispered certain information. She narrowed her eyes and gave another sinister smile.
"Hmmm…the so-called Onigumo…" she spoke in an evil manner. "So he is of use?"
Ended. I just can't really think much of what to write next. Can anyone give me some ideas, or I'll really go bonkers! Okay, I was just joking only although it is rather lame. Please look forward to the next chapter! )
Glossary:
Kazejutusu: Some wind technique which I cooked the name up.
Kusou: A Japanese term for cursing
Temee: A rather rude term for describing 'you'
