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I do own the characters from the story Fending Souls and the land in which they wander.
Hey everyone! here is chapter two of Fending Souls, hopefully you all like it! If ya do lemme know with a review (those are always good) and if you don't like it tell me what to improve, but keep it cool, don't start actin like I just punched ya in the face and start yellin and screamin cuz I didn't. Also, check out stories by Sango0808 because they're all awesome stories (and because I say so!)! I'm gonna let you read my story now, remember to read Sango0808's stories too! -waves-
As Koraq, Tageshi, and Kyogue walked through the forest path, they heard more voices. Tagishie jumped up into a tree, Kyogue transformed into a wolf cub, and Koraq hid behind a tree. As they waited, the voices slowly came into earshot and they could understand what they were saying.
"Look, we know that whatever it is that is killing all these people isn't Naraku, we already defeated him. It has to be something else, and we need to stop it no matter what!" Said a girl in strange looking clothing.
"I should probably point out another reason it can't be Naraku, this isn't our world. This world is completely different from ours," added the person who was dressed in a monk's clothing.
"Will you two just shut up already? I know it aint Naraku because I already shredded his ass. About this new world crap, I dunno where the hell we are," replied the one with a sword at his side.
"I wonder, if we are here then do you think that there may have been others that were ported here?" asked the one in the strange looking clothing.
"It is a possibility Kagome, but maybe we didn't get ported into another world, maybe we are simply lost from fallowing Inuyasha."
"Shut up monk! If we were in our world then I would know where we were, but we are in anoth -". Inuyasha stopped in mid sentence and began smelling the air. "We may be somewhere else but I smell demons."
"Are you sure your not imagining it Inuyasha?" Kogome asked becoming worried. If they were in another world then how did they know that the demons weren't stronger than before?
While in the tree, a feather fell and as it floated tickled Tagishi's nose. He felt a sneeze coming but tried to hold it in, which ended in failure.
"Ah... Ah... AGHCHOO!" Tagishi's sneeze had caused him to lose his balance and fall out of the tree. "AHHHH!" He landed in front of the group with a heavy THUD.
"Owwww... My head hurts now." Tageshi complained. He then looked to see the group he had been eavesdropping on staring directly at him.
"Who are you, you little weasel? Were you planning to ambush us!" Inuyasha yelled.
"Inuyasha! Leave him alone, he isn't exactly strong enough to fight us anyway." Kogome said.
"Are you callin' me weak? I aint weak!" Tageshi protested. "I can go really really fast, and I can also use Shadow attack stuff!" Tagishie continued.
Koraq jumped up over the tree and landed besides Tagishie. "Ya know Tagishie, maybe you should simply shut up. They outnumber us and they seem quite powerful. We would be in quite some trouble if they decided to fight us, so before ya piss em off, shut your goddamn trap" he said emotionlessly.
"At least he seems to be smart enough to recognize our strength." Inuyasha said as he cracked his knuckles.
"Actually, he wouldn't want to fight cuz he has this code thingy about not attacking women. So we would die if they joined the fight" Tageshi replied.
"Give em my life story why don't ya, you baka " Koraq said annoyed with Tagishie.
"Are you mad at me? It's not my fault I sneezed. This silver feather floated down in front of me and tickled my nose, then I sneezed. So it's all the feather's fault, it shouldn't have floated down like that. I blame the feather!"
Kyogue walked out into the middle of the road and looked up at Koraq and Tageshi. "Will you two idiots stop fighting? It gets very irritating after a while." After saying this she transformed into her human form, glaring at Tagishie. "As for you, stop being so stupid. If these people had been dangerous we might have been killed because of you."
"We ARE dangerous stupid!" yelled Inuyasha.
"That wasn't bright..." Tagishie mumbled to himself. "Even I am smart enough not to call Kyogue stupid..."
Kyogue's eyes glared at Inuyasha with piercing hatred. "What... did... you... call... me..." she asked with her voice shaking with rage.
"Kyogue, knock it off." snapped Koraq.
"Knock it off? How about I knock him out..." Kyogue said with her eyes still glaring.
"Bring it on!" yelled Inuyasha preparing to fight. He drew his sword and it instantly transformed into a much larger sword. "I aint scared of you!"
"It is much wiser to be afraid than dead dude…" Tagishie mumbled.
"Keh, she's prolly about as challenging in a fight as the dirt under my feet"
"That's it! Inuyasha, SIT!"
BOOM
"Ouch... that was uncalled for Kagome..." Inuyasha said with his body still planted into the ground. He slowly stood up and then dusted himself off. Tagishie had burst into laughter at Inuyasha for taking a nosedive into the ground.
"What's so funny you little runt? How would you like it if every time someone said "sit" ya took a face first fall into the ground!" Inuyasha yelled in anger. "I'd cut ya into ribbons but Kagome here won't let me" he finished by pointing his thumb in Kagome's direction.
"Look, how about we all forget what has been said and go to the nearest town?" Miroku said in an attempt to avoid pointless fighting. "We haven't any idea as to our current location nor any idea of how to get back, and we have become quite hungry and tired from traveling in circles."
"Yeah! I'm hungry!" yelled a little kitsune whom had been walking next to the girl named Kagome.
"I agree with Miroku and Shippo," said a girl with a boomerang strapped to her back, "We have been traveling for quite some time." She had a little cat on her shoulder let out a "mew" in agreement.
"Ah yes, I should probably introduce you to Shippo, Sango, and Kirara of course." said Miroku stepping aside to let Sango into view. "Now then, shall we head into town?"
"Sure, lets go" said Koraq with his usual emotionless voice.
As they all walked, they came across an unusually large praying mantis. It was creeping up on a woman who had apparently tripped while running from it. In an instant, Koraq had rushed over and gotten in front of the creature as it threw it's large pincer down in an attempt to deal a death-blow to the woman. The pincer ripped through Koraq's stomach and Koraq let out a cry of pain, but anger numbed his nerves and he grabbed the pincer. He twisted his body and tore the arm off of the bug, which let out a horrible screech. Koraq fell to his knees as he attempted to pull the serrated claw from his stomach to no avail.
"Go figure, Koraq rushes off to play hero and almost gets himself killed AGAIN!" Tageshi yelled.
"We have to help!" said Kagome as she knocked an arrow. She drew her bow and aimed at the heart of the creature, releasing when she had her target in sight. Her arrow ripped through the mantis, and the aura shredded a good deal of the mantis instantly. She rushed over to Koraq and looked at his wound.
"Oh my god...! How can you bare that! It has to be immensely painful!"
"Kagome! Baka!" Inuyasha shouted as he rushed over to her and Koraq, parrying the large creature's claw with the Tetsusaiga, quickly counter-attacking the beast immediately after. He swung the tremendous blade and tore through the flesh of the remaining pincer, separating it from its owner. The demon let out a horrible screech, which stunned everyone who heard the cry. It continued hollering in pain until a dull humming sound was heard. The droning sound soon drew closer and closer upon everyone, and soon the creator of this noise appeared. To be more accurate, the creators of the noise appeared. Hundreds of insects had appeared and were surrounding the group, getting ready to pounce on them and kill them all. The stun wore off and Koraq looked around, and finding no way to get everyone to safety he figured that the only way to keep them from harm was to use his forbidden technique, and with the shape he was in from that pincer being impaled through his stomach he didn't know if he had the strength to do it properly. What he did know though, is that if he didn't use it, they were all going to die anyway.
"Damnit Koraq, don't you even THINK about fighting with that.-" Kyogue started, but not finishing as she saw her brother grab the giant pincer that had impaled him and pull it from his body. The sound of tearing flesh was heard as the small hooks on the pincer sliced through more skin as the passed by on the way out. Koraq growled deeply in pain, but succeeded in pulling the severed beasts arm from his body. He looked at the mantis they had nearly killed and heaved the large claw towards it. The beast screeched again as the claw embedded itself in the heart of the creature, killing it instantaneously. He then looked around, glaring at each and every mantis, and through the rage that was burning in his eyes warned them about the horrible fate that now awaited them. He clenched his hands into fists and fire erupted around him, engulfing his entire body. It began burning brighter and with more heat every second, and as they looked upon it the demons realized he was unleashing a forbidden technique. Few knew them due to the monstrous power it required, and if attempted with too little power the technique would feed off of the users life to be completed, killing the user. Not only that, but after the user of the forbidden technique was dead, the energy would rage out of control annihilating everything around the epicenter of the unleashed energy. The demons began backing away, some attempted to run, but it did not matter. Koraq knew the ferocity of the technique he was about to unleash, and to use it without killing the people around him would require even more concentration and energy. The ball of flaming energy soon engulfed the humans around him, and once this was done Koraq roared and unleashed the energy, letting it expand in all directions. The place where the fire once was had been cleared, everything beyond that small space however would suffer the pain of the death that fate had brought them. The unleashed flames tore apart the demons that had attempted to attack the small group of humans and hanyou. Each demon screeched an ear-shattering scream that send chills down everybody's spines. All except for Koraq, who was now unconscious on the ground, scarcely breathing. He was completely motionless, and the surroundings were just as silent as Koraq. The demons had been mutilated, and the flames had devoured all but a few pieces of the corpses that were once terrifying mantis demons. Kyogue kneeled down beside her friend and shook her head.
"You baka… you overdid it again. Always trying to play the hero." Kyogue said, shaking her head. She sighed and looked at everyone else to ask them if they could help her carry her friend's body to town. Tagishie offered his help, along with Kagome and Miroku. Sango seemed to be keeping an extremely trained eye on Miroku's hands while they walked along. They finally came to a large village with massive walls surrounding it.
"Whoa! This is awesome! We are actually at a training facility for Elemental Guardians! How cool is this!" Tagishie shouted bouncing around, almost causing Miroku, Kagome, and himself to drop Koraq's unconscious body. He stopped however when two guardians walked up to them.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" one of them asked.
"Go away you half-wit and let us inside!" Inuyasha yelled at the guardian.
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME!" the enraged guardian roared. He swung his weapon, a long spear, at Inuyasha whom dodged the spear with ease.
"Everyone to the front gate!" a soldier in one of the towers mounted on the enormous walls shouted. Within seconds they were surrounded by numerous heavily armed, and highly trained, Elemental Guardians.