INUYASHA
I
don't really know where I was going with this, either, just that they
had to travel around a lot and find some Crystal, which would turn
out to be what we know as the Shikon no Tama.
And I have no idea
why I decided to call them newbeasts, so don't ask.
Odyssey
"I have to go now, Inuyasha." Kagome said, taking deep breaths to stave off the unconsciousness that had plagued her since her arrival to this chamber. "I have to sleep for now."
"No! You need to stay here with me!" Inuyasha cried, but she shook her head, stepping onto the icy platform.
"No. It's...cold here, now...I have to sleep, or I won't be able to withstand the cold." she said, shivering. Pale golden fur showed on her skin, and large white wings emerged from her back, enveloping her and protecting her from the cold of the shimmering crystal around her.
There was only one spot the wings idled in covering - the spot over her face. Inuyasha reached his hand out to her, stretching, begging her to come back to him. She gave him a sad look, reaching her own hand to him tentatively, but the crest of her wings snapped over the gap, leaving her alone inside her feather shell.
"Good-bye, Inuyasha. I wish things could be different." she whispered, and closed her eyes. It was time to go off to that place where she would wait for wakefulness to take her again.
Inyasha didn't want to let her go. He stormed into the cavern and right up to her. "No!" he cried, trying to pry back her wings. They wouldn't budge, and they were icy cold.
Now he felt so tired...Suddenly he noticed another stand, near hers. Why hadn't he seen it before? He hadn't thought that the little stand she slept on looked very comfortable, but he was so tired, he would sleep anywhere...
He climbed onto the little stand, and fell asleep, his face instantly falling blank. Red fur encompassed him, and black, leathery wings grew from his back to wrap around him in a similar fashion to Kagome's. He himself was becoming a Newbeast. Black and red painted around the doorway, entertwining with the gold and white that was already there. This chamber now housed two Newbeasts.
"Miroku, what are we doing here?" Sango asked the man before her as they trudged up the path on the mountain. "What's the point? Why did you wake me up at the crack of dawn to climb a mountain with you?"
"Because of what's at the top of this mountain. It's said that there's a cave at the top that has two sleeping Newbeasts inside." Miroku replied as he climbed. "I want to see if it's the truth."
"And if it's not?"
"We climbed all this way for nothing. But it will be." Miroku stopped and turned to face her. "I know it's the truth."
"Well, what do we do when we get there?" Sango asked, peevish now with the way he was acting.
"We free them, and tame them." he said. "It'll be worth it. They'll do what we ask of them, and they'll be mega powerful."
"What if we can't tame them?"
"Then we've released a power on the earth that can't be stopped." was his reply. He added a shrug.
"Real reasuring." Sango muttered sarcasticly, rolling her eyes. "When are we going to get there?"
Miroku looked up the mountain, shading his eyes from the morning sun. "In about two minutes." he said. "It's right there."
Sango looked up to see what he meant, and saw a shimmer in the sun. 'In a few minutes, we will be there.' she thought. She climbed faster.
Miroku hoisted her up the last couople of inches, and they stood on a ledge. There was a silver arch before them, with ivy painted around it. Ivy blended white and gold, and ivy blended black and red intertwined all over it.
"It houses two Newbeasts, alright." Miroku muttered. "Let's go inside."
Sango nodded, following him inside the arch.
She gasped. It was beautiful in here! Crystals and ice coated everything. In the center were two stands, both holding something covered in ice. The one on the right looked white, while the one on the left looked like it had been black.
"The Newbeasts." she whispered, walking up to the white one. Miroku stood before it as well, and outheld his hand. The ice around it melted, and it turned out to be two wings. The wings relaxed, and Sango saw that beneath them was something gold. She pulled the wings away slightly, and gasped.
It was a girl, and she was covered in fur, all but her long, black hair. Golden fur.
Miroku smiled. He leaned forward and pressed his lips to the girl's. Sango stared, dumbfounded.
The girl stirred, then opened her eyes. Miroku didn't move. The girl's eyes widened, and she slapped him. "How dare you!" she cried, standing up. Her wings beat furiously, causing a sharp, cold wind to flow through the cave. The ice on the other stand shifted slightly, and a faint rumble could be heard.
Her gaze instantly fell on it. "Inuyasha!" she cried, running forward. She held her hand before it the same way Miroku had, and a pair of leathery black wings came into veiw as Sango and Miroku watched. She pulled the wings wide and wrapped her arms around the red creature inside. "Oh, Inuyasha, I told you to go away." she sobbed. "Now you've been condemned, too!"
The red creature turned out to have the shape of a man. He looked startled, but then he smiled, wrapping his arms around her. "Baka! I told you I wasn't going to leave you in this icy hell." he said fondly. "I meant it."
"But do you know how long you've been here?" she asked quietly.
A moment of silence, and then the man's eyes went wide. "Gods! Has it really been ten thousand years?" he asked.
"Eleven thousand, seven hundred sixty two." she corrected. "I told you to leave. Now all your family will be worried."
"Not likely. In the impossible event my parents come back to life, then maybe. But the only family I had when I followed you here was my brother, and he hated me."
"Ahem." Sango interupted gently. "Would you please explain what's going on?" She included Miroku in this question, who shrugged.
The boy and girl turned to her. "Eleven thousand, seven hundred sixty two years, two months and four days ago this idiot followed me into this cave." the girl said, poking the boy playfully. "I was supposed to sleep until someone woke me up, but he wouldn't leave, so he ended up getting turned into a Newbeast, too."
"I already told you, I would have come back even if you'd pinned me to some tree on the other side of the world." the boy said hotly, staring into her eyes with a scowl on his face.
She looked away. "I know," she said, "I just wish you would have stayed."
He wrapped his arm around her waist. "Stop talking like that. What's done is done, and you can't change it unless you have the Crystal. Which, by the way, we have to get again now that we're free of this ice age."
"I know-" the girl started, but Miroku cut her off.
"What are your names? We are Miroku and Sango." he said.
"And I wish I didn't know him." Sango added.
The girl blushed. "Oh, sorry. My name is Kagome, and this is Inuyasha."
"Feh. Are you going to help us get the Crystal?" he asked. "If it wasn't for that little brat, we'd still have it, but nooo, he had to loooose it." he complained. Kagome smacked him on the arm.
"Shippo didn't do it on purpose!" she cried. Inuyasha just smirked.
"Oh yes, that's right, he's your kid." he said. Kagome blushed.
"That's not true! He's an orphan! And for you information, he was chosen for the Newbeast offering as well!" She slapped him. "We have to find him!"
"How do you plan to do that?" Sango asked.
"Why, we'll go down to the village and find the next Newbeast cavern." Kagome said. "If there's still a village at the bottom of this mountain."
"It is, but-" Sango started.
"Sorry to say it, but you'd stick out like a sore thumb." Miroku said.
Kagome looked down. "Oh, yes, don't worry about that." she said. As soon as she'd said it, the fur on her body began to retract until it was gone. So did the red fur on Inuyasha's body.
"What about your wings?" Sango asked
"They'll help us get down the mountain, and we'll get rid of them then." Kagome replied, tugging Inuyasha to the door.
It was then that the two normal teens got a good look at what the other two were wearing. Kagome was wearing this long, white robe-like thing, and Inuyasha was wearing an old red kimono.
Kagome looked down at him. "You need to change." she said, shaking her head and drawing him over to the small chest on the other side of the chamber.
"No way am I wearing one of those!" he cried, pointing to the robe Kagome wore. Kagome laughed.
"You don't have to." she said. "You'll get something else, trust me."
Inuyasha snorted, but nodded. She pulled out a black clothe from the chest, handed it to him, and shoved him through a door that no one had noticed before.
