A/N: Hey everyone! I am soooooooo SORRY! (smiles guiltily) I have been busy... But anyway, I am sooo sorry I didn't upload in so long! I wouldn't be suprised if reviewers got mad cuz I didn't post a new chapter...
Reviewer: no, you shouldn't be suprised. Let's burn her alive!
Reviewer #2: Off with her head!
Okay, now that's a good example of an exaggeration.
Anyway, this chapter is longer than the other ones, exept chapter one. It's the least I could do, and I hope its not too bad.
Thank you all for your reviews! By the way, Inuyasha wasn't worried about kikyou seeing he and kagome in the 'comforting hug' pose, because that wasn't kikyo! It was just a lady with brown hair watching from the tv screens. lol. But whatever, felt I had to point that out, thanks for your review though!
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Moving on!
It had been hours already spent in the deep conversation Sango and Kagome were having sitting on the comfortable floor, but it seemed like they had talked for years and knew each other since childhood. At first, Sango had been a crying and comforting shoulder to Kagome, and even joined in now and then with her mourning. And now, Kagome was calm, and Sango was adding more of her pep talk.
"Hey, cheer up! You know, you didn't have it so tough…I (pause) left people behind too…" Her eyes wondered off. Kagome was struck by guiltiness. She had spent all this time talking only about herself, and how she was going to miss those she loved, and her life and troubles, but she never once did ask how Sango ended up in the same place. Sango's attempted pep talk only made her worry, but it helped her realize the world doesn't revolve around her. Not like it ever has…
"So Sango, how did you get here? I mean, were you kidnapped? Or brought forcefully? Or did you fall into a hole…?" Kagome asked, concerned.
"Fall into a hole? No, I wasn't like one of those lunatics who happened to walk into a dark ally and fall into this dump…seriously, how could anyone be that stupid to walk into such a dark alley in the streets of Tokyo? (Kagome scowled, Sango laughed) Just Kidding Kagome…In reality, I wasn't forced to be here, nobody kidnapped me or anything, but they offered my family money if one of the younger members was traded for experimenting. We were starving poor at the time, and we had a lot of mouths in need of feeding. They didn't say what kind of experimenting though… And I was the oldest, and I offered myself so my younger siblings wouldn't have to go…I miss them…But I wasn't allowed to go back, and that was three years ago that I haven't seen or heard from them." she sighed.
"Wow, Sango, I'm sorry…" Kagome apologized whole heartedly.
"Don't be, it wasn't your fault! Besides, what's done is done, I try no to think about it."
"But, you offered yourself, that's so noble. Unlike me who got here on pure stupidity…"
"Yeah, well. Some are born smarter than others."
"Sango!"
"Just joking, Kagome! Geez…" they both broke out into happy laughter. Maybe the idea of living here isn't going to be so bad, Kagome thought, but still…
( In another room that was titled "Prime Dormitory")
Mmm…I'm done checking the surveillance videos! Now all I have to do is busywork, what a pain in the- - the leader thought, until his thoughts were interrupted by a presence that just walked in his office, but he hadn't heard a whisper, he just felt her come in…
"Hello, leader Inuyasha." A woman with the long and straight, black hair and sunken eyes looked into the amber ones, as she sat on a chair on the opposite side of his chair, with a desk in between to put some distance.
"Hello, assistant-leader Kikyo." Inuyasha greeted back.
"May I ask what is to be done about the leader of the humans?"
"Yes you may." He smiled.
"Alright…" she waited a while, and saw that he wasn't answering. Then gave Inuyasha a weird look and asked, "Well?"
Inuyasha chuckled, then answered " The leader of the humans…isn't that officer Kaede?"
"Yes…but we need a new one." she continued impatiently, like she was talking to a child, "She is aging, Inuyasha-."
"I know that's right." He cut her off.
"-So we need a new one who is strong, can lead, and is young." She ignored him.
"Yeah, I guess, but that's not up to me."
"It isn't?" she asked bewildered, mostly at the fact he knew something that she didn't.
"No, it isn't. That's up to Kaede. She must choose who she thinks is fit for the job." His mood was lifted a bit; finally I know something she doesn't! He thought.
"Oh, I see…" Kikyo nodded, "Well then, thank you, good bye." She parted, with poise. Inuyasha took in what was left of her presence that just gave off the signal to anyone that she was superior to all, which was mostly what led to his choice of her for the job of an assistant-leader. He needed only the strong at his side.
Now where was he? Oh yeah, paperwork, what a pain in the ass…He thought as he resumed his job.
(Back in the room where Kagome and Sango chatted.)
"So, what do we do now? I got the operation, and some weird 'abilities', and now what do you do around here?" asked Kagome, curiously.
"Oh yes! I forgot! I have to show you around, and teach you our daily schedule!" Sango was suddenly kicked into high gear. She stood up, and yanked Kagome's arm to pull her up, Kagome used body strength to pull herself up as well. When they were both up, Sango walked closer to a part of the wall, which Kagome knew was the disguised door. Sango shouted "054126434!" and a little square (probably two inches by two inches) opened up to reveal what looked like a web cam, Sango opened her right eye as far as it could go (which involuntarily opened up her left eye as far as it could, too) and came closer to the 'web cam'. A vibrant blue light in a horizontal line, the length of the square, appeared on top of Sango's right eyebrow, and traveled down to the right side of her nose, it had covered her whole right eye. The light had come from the web cam, and it was now obvious to Kagome that it was an eye scanner, just like the woman had said before. The door opened. Sango power walked out and Kagome had to jog to catch up to her before she left her there.
Now they were back in the stone, arched, tunnels. Sango was a good distance away from Kagome, who was observing the walls. Sango led the way down many corridors; she turned left, then right, and then left again. Then Kagome bumped into something, it was Sango, who had stopped walking a few seconds ago. She heard a 'click' and then Sango walked further down, but to where? Wasn't there a solid wall in front of her?
"Sango, did you walk into a wall?" Kagome asked, and then she saw that her friend had stepped into a room. It had been the door that clicked when she opened it. Kagome stepped in too, and saw it was a spacious room where about twenty people were gathered and were chatting freely. No one seemed to notice them come in, but then a handsome guy with black, short, hair tied in a low ponytail came up to her. He had strange, mysterious violet eyes and a charming smile.
"Why? Do you do that often miss?" he asked. It took an instance for Kagome to understand, when she remembered her just-asked question.
"Uh…no, of course not. It's just I thought she was about to bump into a wall."
"So you thought she wasn't paying attention to where she was going (pause) just as you weren't paying attention when you bumped into her." He concluded, still holding that smile.
"No, I just - -"
"Oh Miroku, stop hassling the poor girl! Leave Kagome alone…" Sango elbowed the guy lightly with a friendly smile.
"I'm not hassling her….yet. I was just showing my cleverness, that's all…" said Miroku, mirroring the smile.
Kagome knew he was joking, she could get used to this guy, he was just like a guy friend of hers she knew when she was little.
"How clever…"Kagome sarcastically joked.
"Ooh, she's good." Miroku joked too.
"Yeah, I know, she's my new friend" Sango announced, as if that hadn't been obvious.
"Mine as well?" Miroku asked with puppy eyes towards Kagome.
"Um…sure!" Kagome replied, in a nice manner.
"You should have thought twice before saying that." Sango warned.
"Yay! I have a new friend!" Miroku proceeded in giving her a hug, and Kagome only responded by giving him two pats on the back, in a "there, there" kind of way. And she waited for him to let her go. So she waited, and waited, and waited… Why wasn't this guy letting go of her? She tried to look at his face, which was facing the other way, more towards her back. She caught a glimpse of him, she had to strain her neck, but she saw his face. He was looking at something with attention, and had a small smirk on his lips. She followed his stare, and she saw….my ass! She pushed him off her, violently, and lashed at his face. She slapped him, and the handprint was visible for a few seconds.
Miroku sighed, and talked casually, like nothing important had happened,
"Ah (he breathed), well, at least I didn't receive a harder blow…"
"Miroku! What did you do? Amazing, just- amazing! Five seconds of your new acquaintance- -" Sango shouted.
"Uh-ah, friendship." He corrected.
"Friendship, whatever! Five seconds of your 'friendship' and she has already slapped you!"
"Yeah, yeah, I know, amazing...Everyone knows that is what truly I am." He tried to sound conceited, really just to get Sango mad, or madder.
Sango scoffed. Kagome scowled. Miroku had to give in eventually, so he apologized,
"Alright, if I must. Please forgive me, Kagome." He looked sincere; then again, Kagome knew not to trust this guy so easily now.
"Ok…But never do anything like that to me again! Or I'll be forced to-to hurt you…" she said.
"That was the worst threat ever, sorry Kagome." Sango stated only the truth.
"S'okay, I don't care, as long as he gets the point."
"Yeah, understood." Miroku nodded.
"Good! So…Sango, is this what you do everyday?"
"Oh, yes. We come here, and do our morning relaxing exercises, sort of like yoga, they help us control our 'abilities' throughout the day. Then we have breakfast, and then—"Sango was cut off in her answer by a whistle. Kagome looked to the opposite side of the room from where she was standing, and saw a short, hunched old lady, with long straight and gray hair tied in a low ponytail, wearing…an old miko outfit, why did some women in this place like to wear that? In the fashion world, it was ancient! Literally...
"Settle down! Now everyone, please, sit on the mats as we start our training for today." The lady instructed, with authority in her voice, so it seemed she added the 'please' out of habit and nothing more.
Kagome followed the crowd walking towards the old lady. She only walked a few steps, really, until she realized she was to sit on the blue mats she had just noticed were there on the floor in this part of the room. She sat next to Sango, leaving her new girl friend smack in the middle to sit between her and Miroku. Good, that should put some distance, she thought.
Everyone had sat in the cross-legged position, so Kagome did so as well. As whispers of ending conversations died away, the old lady cleared her throat, and finally everyone was silent and giving her their full attention.
"Now everyone, close your eyes and begin your meditation with my instructions." She said. Kagome saw that Sango closed her eyes, and sat upright. Kagome did what she had been doing a lot lately, and followed. She remembered her little brother once saying, "Monkey see, monkey do." She had just got that…
"Now, you are drifting off into another world. A world deep inside you…" The old lady was saying, in a calm, mystical voice. "Look, don't see, and search laboriously. Search inside you, your deepest strength. You have abilities, find the source."
Kagome, tried to follow that, but it was hard. What does she mean? The source? Maybe it means were all my power came from and escaped me, like the day I wrecked the cushiony psycho-holding room…That time, her time temper had risen to new levels, yes, but it tapped into some unknown force inside her, somehow…Maybe the lady was asking her to tap it again…Wouldn't that cause destruction, like the last time? Or, probably she had to learn to be careful when reaching it this time?
"Now, that's it, yes (AN: No, she's not having sex)… You've found the source, now explore it. Calmly touch every bit, and learn its capability…Relax…" the voice of the old lady helped her queries. And Kagome knew she needed to explore the source of her power, learn what it was, or what it could do…Only…She couldn't find the source yet! Where was it? She couldn't tell for sure, and looking for it so much did not relax her, to say the least… So, knowing she couldn't achieve the task at hand, she gave up and her curiosity got the better of her. She opened one eye, ever so slightly, and nobody noticed, so she opened both her eyes completely.
She gasped. It was extraordinary! Everyone was sitting in the positions they were before, but only, their butts weren't! They were floating above the floor! This reminded her of childhood movies she had seen in which magical people, like genies, floated in a sitting position in midair, but this was real! Even though they weren't that high above, only a few inches or so, but it was noticeable.
Wow, they can do that with just…meditating? I wish I could too…But how do they do that? How can they? She was puzzled, when the old lady spoke again; she was floating with her eyes closed too. "Now everyone let go of the energy. It's time to stop, you've done enough. Put what you learned about your abilities in a safe inside your brain, to be reached only when needed…" she said. Everyone was now floating back down, as if they were as light as a feather, they descended. Then, as soon as they sat on the solid floor, they opened their eyes in a way that seemed like they had been in a deep slumber.
Kagome poked Sango when she opened her eyes, and asked with a hint of anxiety, "HOW did you do that?"
"Meditating everyday…Don't worry, you'll learn, with practice. Now let's go eat!" Sango followed the rest of the people in the room who were exiting through the door, probably towards their breakfast.
Kagome and Sango walked for a while until they reached some double doors, which was the entry to the largest room Kagome had ever been in, other than a ballroom in her school. It was already filled with people, who had just come in through the other double doors on the rest of the sides of the rectangular room. There were square, plastic, blue tables placed orderly in rows, and about four or five people sat at each one in dark blue, also plastic, chairs with metal legs.
"Come on, let's go get out lunch." Sango said.
"Yeah, I'll see you girls later; I'm going to go sit with the guys." Miroku waved while walking away.
"Okay, see you"
"Bye Miroku." Kagome waved back.
"C'mon let's go." Sango pulled Kagome's arm while she said that, heading towards a line of people entering an open door, and then coming out another one a few yards away with small, light green trays that carried food. Kagome hadn't noticed that, neither had she noticed that everyone who was sitting down already had their trays and started eating. They must have come at an earlier time…
Kagome entered with Sango, and ended up with a ham and cheese sandwich, a bottle of water, a small sugar cookie, and an apple (AN: good lunch!) on a tray. Sango followed behind her with her lunch, but then she had to take her place in front of Kagome because she didn't know where to go. Sango led her to a square table near the center of the room, where a wolf-like girl was sitting with a red haired girl, both close to Sango's age, which means close to Kagome's age. Kagome smiled as she sat down, opposite form the other girls and next to Sango.
"Girls, this is my new friend Kagome." Sango introduced, and then added "And she's new."
"Hey Kagome, I'm Ayame." Greeted the wolf-like girl.
"Hello I'm Kaiko." Greeted the other.
"Hey!" Kagome saluted cheerfully. She could see that Ayame was really beautiful, with light brunette hair in two ponytails, and aqua flavored eyes that were interesting to look at, because any lawyer could spend days debating whether they were really green or blue, or both. She had a contrast of her tan skin with her eyes which made her exotic. And the girl named Kaiko had shoulder-length, wavy and healthy red hair, definitely not dyed; it was real, accompanied by big brown eyes like Sango, and cute childish freckles. But Kagome had the impression Kaiko was anything but childish.
"So, what brings you here, tell us, where you forced?" Ayame asked Kagome. Sango made a stiff hand motion in front of her neck, and shook her head, as a warning sign.
"Well, I don't really want to talk about it…" Kagome answered, trying not to sound rude.
"O-oh! I'm sorry…Well, you're new, right? We need to show you around!" Ayame tried to change the topic.
"Oh, Sango's helping me, she's taking me everywhere."
"No, not like that! I mean show you the people, and give you the heads up."
"Oh, okay, shoot."
"Well…you see that table over there, the one with the hot guys?" Ayame pointed to a table in which wolf-like guys were sitting at.
"Uh…I see it." Kagome spotted the table, but none of the guys there were appealing to her because most of them looked too canine-ish. (Kaiko giggled for some reason.) Except one, who looked more human, and had a high ponytail.
"Yeah? Well, the one with the brown headband and the high ponytail, that's my boyfriend!" Ayame smiled.
"No, he isn't, Ayame has just been obsessed with him since the dawn of time…Any way, the real hot guys are not in this lunch." Kaiko cleared.
"They aren't?" Kagome made conversation with a rhetorical question.
"Um, no, she just said that." Ayame answered, and laughed. Kagome's attempted conversation failed.
"Yes they are! And he is so my boyfriend!" Ayame contradicted.
"Kaiko, you're just saying that because your crush isn't in this lunch." Sango told her.
"So?" Kaiko asked the next rhetorical question, but no one answered, as it should have been, but that hadn't worked for Kagome. She smiled at Kagome just then, like she understood the unfairness and it had been amusing to her, but how could she know? "Whatever, you guys have no taste." Sango again.
"Why? Who's your crush, Sango?" Kagome asked.
"As if it's not obvious…But I'm not telling, I'll let you guess!"
"Do I know him?"
"That's foul play! You've only met a few people here, so for you that's a big hint!"
"Ooh! Who have you met Kagome? tell us! Sango has never told us her crush, EVER!" Ayame pleaded.
"Yes please!" Kaiko pleaded as well.
"NO, Kagome, don't say anything, please!" Sango joined the club, but for a different request.
"Well, I think I know who it is, but it's Sango's privacy, so sorry girls, I can't tell." Kagome sealed her lips, and smiled.
"Aww!" Ayame and Kaiko chorused, while Sango was content.
Breakfast was soon over, and the rest of the day followed almost like a school day. Kagome and Sango trained their powers in many of the rooms Kagome had already seen, and it was no wonder now why every room was "Training # (blank)". They trained not only their minds, like in the early morning, but also their bodies with the 'kickboxing' and 'martial arts' that Kagome had seen before. She thought it was a workout in a gym when she had peeked in the training rooms for the first time Flashback There was an instructor who repeated movements while counting "1,2! 1,2!" and about twenty people in front of him copied the uppercut he was demonstrating. And as it turns out, she had been completely right and only slightly off on the part that the place was a gym because it was really a shelter. The workout was for their bodies because they had to keep fit for 'battle', as Sango explained to her.
Sango and Kagome had been training in different things like martial arts, and other physical gym-like exercises, plus the ones for their special 'abilities', like there was this one exercise they had to practice picking up heavy and heavier objects with their minds.
"Don't push it Kagome, it has to come out on its own. It must flow…Like this." Sango advised, and then demonstrated by lifting a black iron safe, the size of a medium-screen TV two feet above the ground with only an index finger movement upwards. Kagome's jaw dropped. The thing looked heavy, even if it was to be carried by pure muscle and not brains, and it took ten times the strength for brains to lift something up than any muscle according to Miroku.
"I could NEVER do that-!" Kagome half shouted.
"Sure you can, just start small. You have a target, now focus. But don't stress over it, be patient, and wait for the object to lift on its own."
"I-can't" Kagome struggled, and frowned at the object she tried to lift.
"You can!"
"I can't"
"You can!"
"Oh my gosh, look! It flew up! And it's still there…"
"Yeah, I see it! I'm so proud, a whole inch this time! Now, hold it, don't let go..."
"Right, right…Don't let go…"
"No, Kagome, don't!" Sango exclaimed right when a pencil dropped to the ground next to a feather that happened to be descending breezily down. Miroku walked towards them, and picked up the pencil to hand it to Kagome.
"Here, try again; it's easy once you get the hang of it." Miroku encouraged her.
"What, with a pencil! That's too hard!"
"Just, hand her the feather Miroku…" Sango sighed.
"Oh, she was lifting the feather?" Miroku tried not to crack up.
"Just…shut up, Miroku." Kagome ordered, in a beaten, disappointed mood.
Sango and Kagome stayed together, and Kagome was introduced to a lot of people, including more part-animal people. Sango had a lot of friends with differences, there was plenty of variety, and nobody minded. It seemed the humans and… half humans mixed in pretty well; they accepted their differences as far as Kagome could see.
At the end of the day, when everyone else parted to their dormitories, Sango took Kagome into another training room.
"Why do we have to keep training? Everyone else is done." Kagome asked, not caring if she sounded whiny because she was very much tired.
"Well, we don't keep training. You have to, because new 'members' have to be examined for their classification of abilities."
"I'm too tired to try to think, so tell me what you mean by 'classification of abilities' " Kagome yawned, which spread to Sango and made her yawn too.
"It means that you will be training with Kaede, until she decides she knows exactly what you can do with your special abilities. Like make barriers, or read minds…"
"Some can read minds? Who?"
"Yeah, like Kaiko, remember her? She can read minds. Now, I'll come by your dormitory tomorrow for the whole routine, k'? See you!" Sango power walked away so fast Kagome couldn't tell where that girl got the sudden burst of energy. Kagome just blinked, and then decided just to get it over with so she turned around to head for the door. "Training room #108"…how big is this place? She thought.
Kagome walked forwards to reach the door handle, but she bumped into something…no, someone. Kagome backed up a bit, and saw two golden orbs staring at her. It was that dog guy from before! The one who helped her! He blinked; she blinked, remembering just having blinked when Sango had left. It's a blinking world…
"S-sorry…" he stammered, looking a little pink.
"It's okay." Kagome smiled, with a full blown blush.
"So…What's your name?"
"Oh, it's Kagome."
"You new?"
"Yes…"
"Well…I'm the leader of this shelter, Inuyasha!" he smiled with confidence.
"Wha-what!" Kagome's eyes widened in horror. No! The guy who helped me was the one who put me in here in the first place!
"I know, leader. Cool, huh?" he smirked this time.
"YOU, are the leader? The one who trapped me in this place!" Kagome's eyes burned, and if only looks could kill, he would have been too. (AN: he would have been burned. Sorry, felt I had to explain that.) Her face wasn't blushing anymore; it was just plain red now.
"Uh-um…" He said nervously. Inuyasha felt attacked. And he spotted a spark on his shirt. Wait, a spark? He looked down again at his red shirt, Nah…Must have been the red of my shirt.
"Ugh! I can't believe this. I want to leave this place!" Kagome remembered the first time she'd seen this guy, in an office of some kind, she couldn't remember much…
"Sorry, nocando!" He meant 'no can do' but it came off as one word as he sprinted away. He was there, and then he was gone, just like that.
"Ah!" she screamed in anger. Then she saw he was too far ahead for her to catch up to him, so she sighed in frustration. But remembered why she was there in the first place, and opened the training room door. She stepped in and saw the old lady she had seen that day, in the 'morning exercises' sitting on a green matt, in a small room.
"Hello, child, step closer." She said commandingly. She was sitting cross legged, with her eyes closes, and it looked like she was meditating. How had she seen her again? Kagome walked to her, a little nervous. "Sit, in front of me."
Kagome did as told, and waited until the old lady opened her eyes calmly. Then she asked, "Tell me, what is your name?" or ordered…
"Um…Kagome."
"Alright, Um-Kagome. Let's start."
"Huh? No, ma'am, my name is Kagome." "Oh, I see, trying to be clearer this time. Good, I've taught you something already." She smiled, pleased with herself, "What we are going to do today, we are going to do everyday until we figure out what you're capable of. We'll begin with calm meditation: close your eyes and relax." Kagome did so, and after that the whole 'meditation' was a replay of what had happened in the morning. Kagome was tired, hungry, and bored…
"Now, let's do some other kinds of training. We'll practice on your telekinetic powers…" Kaede went on. And made Kagome try and lift another feather, with her mind, and she hadn't gotten any better but at least she was practicing some more now. Then Kaede stopped her with raising a palm, and said "Well, we need to work on that…Now, let's focus on your other abilities. Look at me, into my eyes."
"What?" Kagome asked worriedly, she hoped this lady wasn't going lesbian on her…or something.
"Do as I say. Look into my gaze, search into my eyes. What do you see?"
"Um…You have…dark brown eyes. With specks of black…And-"
"No, child! That's not what I meant…(sigh) Just try to read my eyes; tell me what I'm thinking…"
"OoOh!" Kagome understood now, she searched her eyes for words, phrases, anything?
"Do not try to look for words, 'tis expression of reading minds like a simple book is not true. Look for images, or even emotions."
"Oh, okay then." Kagome tried again. She stared, and still all she could see was brown and a black pupil.
"Never mind. Maybe that is not your destiny. Try to…put your feelings in tight ball. All of them: anger, love, worry…"
"O-kay…" Kagome was confused in what to do. "Is this stress therapy?"
"Hush, child. Concentrate; bring your emotions into a tight ball. Put your hands together, and make an imaginary ball with your palms." Kagome made an invisible ball.
"Right, now close your eyes, and search for any deep feelings. Like anxiety."
"Well, I'm definitely anxious to get out of this place, and sad about leaving my family…" Kagome almost whispered, with closed eyelids.
"Yes, that's it. Reach deep into them, find them in your memory and play them over and over again inside you."
Kagome was remembering her family, and all the people she loved. She was leaving them all, maybe forever, and now…She felt so alone. And the worst part was: she couldn't remember their exact faces. Wait, what! She worried. Why couldn't she see clear figures? Why were the faces of her mother, little brother, and grandpa kind of foggy? And she couldn't even make out her cousins' faces…Oh no! I can't remember them! I'm loosing them! She felt so frustrated again and… miserable. She couldn't remember her own family! She was already spilling hot tears, which slowly dripped down her face. She was truly alone now, with no clear pictures of them. She felt sudden anger, and a familiar feeling of fire in her veins…
"It's hot! Too hot!" she heard herself shout.
"It's alright, hang in there! Keep making an imaginary ball!" Kaede shouted back.
Kagome tried to make a ball, but it wasn't helping, it justfrustrated her even more to have to focus on something other than her rising temperature. She couldn't do both at once! She opened her eyes, and saw her hands…They were glowing! Heck, her whole body was glowing! But…It was so hot. She felt like taking off her own skin.
"Try to release the energy!" Kaede kept shouting.
"How?"
"Follow your instinct!"
"Great! What do I do!" Kagome stood up, and her own too feet were glowing up at her. She started bouncing up and down in horror, she felt like she was melting! She finally just stuck both her hands out forward, right next to each other, and BAM! A light beam flew out of her hands, and hit the wall. It had made a whole about as big as a basketball. She could see pipes inside, and puffs of smoke from the edges of the whole from the light she had launched. She exhaled in relief, who cares if she made a whole? She felt temperate now, the heat gone.
"I have never seen something like that. I thought it was a mini bomb at first…I shall report it. Now, let's sit again." Kaede said, amazed. She had been standing there too, so both she and Kagome took a seat on the matt.
"Sorry about the whole…What was that?" Kagome asked.
"Don't worry about the damage, my child. Just, tell me what you thought of when you…glowed."
"I was thinking, about my family…"
"Well, let's keep that thought. It'll help us figure out your other abilities, if there are any."
"Okay…"
"Mmm…Tell me child, did something odd happen when you first came here? Didn't you feel, even worse than now?"
"Yes. And I'm not sure what I did, but I do know I could have caused major damage if I hadn't been in that indestructible room."
"I will do some research…Well, until tomorrow then. Hold on, actually, I'm just about to call everyone for an assembly, so come with me...You'll meet up with Sango there." Kaede started walking out the door. And Kagome followed her, to her office where she made an announcement of the assembly.
(In Sango's room:)
A loud voice spoke. And it was scratchy, like it came from a speaker. "Humans, report to Main room, for an important assembly. I repeat: Humans, report to the Main room, for an assembly." Sango spotted the intercom.
(In a large room named: Meetings. In it: about five hundred chairs, and a stage in front of all of the seats on which on top lay a podium and a microphone. )
"An assembly? What could this be? Miroku, have you heard anything about this?"
asked Sango.
"No, I haven't. It certainly wasn't scheduled."
"That's odd. Oh well…Kaiko, follow us-me (she quickly changed her mind), follow me." Sango directed Kaiko, who was walking with them.
"Why not me?" asked an offended-looking Miroku.
"And you have to ask?" Sango asked back, sarcastically.
After twists and turns through the arched, stone hallways, all of the former occupants of the spacious room had followed one after the other, like sheep, but they ended up where they needed to go. Kagome and Kaede entered the double doors to what appeared as an auditorium, with what looked like three times as many seats as thee were in Kagome's school auditorium. Kaede walked up to the stage, and left Kagome standing there, in front of sooo many people. Kagome felt embarrassed, then she saw a had waving at her. She turned around, there was nobody behind her. Yes, they were waving at her. She followed it, and found Sango, Miroku, and Kaiko. She sat down on the seat next to the aisle. She had Sango on the other side, which felt safe because at least she wasn't sitting near Miroku, but she still said "hi!" to him…to all of them.
"Who are these people?" Kagome asked curiously, in a normal voice level because everyone was talking too. She had never seen a more packed room.
"Oh, these are the other humans, which like us got somehow brought here by force, luck, or threats. We are all 458 people, but with you, we're 459." She answered casually. Kagome wondered if anyone had come here knowing its consequences...If they did, they must have been in a real tight spot,either that or clearly suicidal...to want to leave your life behind.
"We still all experienced a horrible misfortune, trust me. Nobody knew what was about to happen to them or the concequences." Kaiko answered her unsaid wonder. Oh yeah, she can read minds…Kagome thought, Wait, stop thinking Kagome! She'll know everything. Just shut up…Ah! Stop thinking! She smacked her forehead. Kaiko laughed.
"What's up with you?" asked Miroku giving Kagome a weird look, "We were pretty unlucky…In fact, our nickname to our selves should be the 'unlucky few'! Catchy, huh?" He smiled that charming grin again.
"But we're more than just a few…" Sango said, and Miroku shushed her.
"Ahem! Everyone, quiet now…" Kaede suddenly breathed life into the microphone, but most people didn't hear her, until "Silence!" she yelled so loud, it echoed when the room fell silent. "Now, we have come across a very dangerous situation…" She began talking, in all seriousness.
A/N: Again, I am sooo sorry for posting this late! And um...oh yeah!
For the reviewer who wrote about this story being similar to 'Point of no Return', you're right! They are similar. But I have never seen that movie before, I think I've heard the tiltle though...Oh well! Thanks for your review, and hope you keep reading! Because my story has a cool twist to it at the end! And if you have any questions feel free to ask. And yes, I'll answer!
Please review, I'll write more soon this time! I mean, sooner...you get the picture. See ya!
