Ch.5
Large Problems and Little People
B.B.- "HA! MINE!"
Inuyasha - "What's yours?"
B.B.- "RAMAN!"
Inuyasha - "Raman! Where!" (looks around frantically)
B.B. - (eyes closed) "MINE!"
Inuyasha - (lunges for bag-o-raman)
B.B. - (turns into a rabid wolf with sharp teeth and large claws, foaming at the mouth. In a large, masculine voice) "MINE!"
Inuyasha - (runs away with his tail between his legs)
B.B.- (turns back into beautiful girl) "Raman." (Closes eyes and slurps noodles dreamily)
Inuyasha - (Crawls back and reaches for raman, VERY slowly)
B.B.- "Grrr..."
Inuyasha - (whimpering) "Raman..."
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Kala returned with Lady Crow's kit.
"What is that needed for, Lady Crow?" Sango asked as Lady Crow placed Tayallay back in Sango's arms.
"I said, child, call me Lady Keyla. I need it to remove the greenery from Kay's hair." She smiled as she pulled a black bottle and smiled in satisfaction when a white skull and two crossbones appeared on the bottle's surface.
"What do you need that for?" Sango started to feel like she was being Shippo again. 'That's it, I'm going to keep myself at two questions in an order.'
"I'm going to spray Kay's hair and it will kill the plants. When they're dead, it will be safe to remove them." She looked up, eyes violet. That color made the married couple smile.
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B.B.- "Despite the fact that Miroku's so scared of the old hag he's almost pissing his pants."
Miroku - "I am not!" (Shaking and doing the potty dance)
W.W.- "You're right, Miroku... you're almost pissing your robes!" (W.W. and B.B. laughing so hard they can't breathe)
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Lady Crow sprayed the plant killer on Kay's head, and Miroku, Songo, Kala, and Lady Crow left the greenhouse encased by the green painted shed.
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B.B- "Shut UP!"
W.W.- "But you need..."
B.B.- "I said SHUT UP!"
W.W.- "Fine, but no one can get into your parts of the story."
B.B.- (eyes glowing red. Glaring, and in a low, dangerous voice) "SHUT UP."
Inuyasha - (Cowers and reaches for the bowl of raman B.B. was eating and had out down to yell at W.W.)
B.B.- (not looking away from W.W.) "Inuyasha..." (When Inuyasha doesn't go away from the bowl, B.B. chases him away) "MINE!" (Turns to reader, sighs, changes out of scary figure into a blond girl, a bitch) "W.W. says I don't use enough detail."
W.W.- "That's because you don't."
B.B.- "SHUT UP YOU... SLUT! Now, what was I saying? Oh, yeah. Lady Crow is a hag with ashy skin, knotted black hair, and ragged white rat robes. Her eye color changes to fit her mood."
Shippo - "I don't think everyone knows what rat robes are."
B.B.- "Really? Rat Robes are what Inuyasha wears. Anyway, the white rat robes that Lady Crow wears have really turned into a moth grey." (Turns to W.W.) "Happy?"
W.W.- "Very. NOW GET BACK TO THE STORY!"
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"Now, we go and see Fala." Lady Crow then asked the girl to take them to the Blue Child. Kala took them to blue shed, took out a stone key, then placed it in the lock. The door opened into a large cave that shimmered with rocks covered in ice.
"Wow!" Sango said when she saw all the ice.
"What are you 'wowing' about, Sango?" Miroku asked. He started to walk forward.
"Miroku, sto..." Sango was too late. Miroku walked into the cavern
Miroku turned. "What?" He saw Sango looking at his feet. He looked down to see that he was standing on ice. "Um... Sango, I'm going to walk to you." As soon as Miroku lifted his left foot, he slipped.
"You fool." Lady Crow said sternly, yet her eyes were violet in color. "Stand, boy." Lady Crow walked onto the ice, and as she did the ice melted from under her feet.
Miroku stood as they heard "Lady Crow! Lady Crow!" A girl came running, ice forming in her wake. She looked as if she was going to hug Lady Crow, but she stopped right in front of her.
Miroku lifted his right foot and slipped on the newly formed ice. He lifted his face from the ground, his nose as red as if a woman had slapped it. In a small, small voice, Miroku said "Sango, I miss the grass." Then let his face fall again.
Lady Crow walked to Miroku, grabbed his ear and dragged him to his feet.
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W.W.- "Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow ,ow, ow, ow, ow, ow" (continues saying ow)
B.B.- "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha" (continues laughing)
Miroku - " It's not funny, B.B., and yes, ow it did hurt!"
B.B.- (wiping tears of laughter from her face) "Miroku, I'm allowed to laugh."
Miroku - "How's that?"
B.B.- "I wrote it!" (Breaks into fit of laughter again)
Miroku - (snatches story from B.B.) If you don't stop laughing, I'll give the story to W.W."
B.B.- (shuts up and snatches story back)
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Miroku was now standing next to Sango and holding his ear. Lady Crow was talking softly with Fala and Kala.
"I wonder what they're talking about." Miroku whispered
"They are talking about Fala's problem with turning everything into ice." Sango whispered back.
"HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT!" Miroku asked in a harsh whisper.
"First, when we got here the girl Kana said, and I quote, 'It's the Blue Child, she's been turning things into ice again.' Plus when she came running in everything turned to ice." Sango looked at the three talking and said "And look, the ground around Lady Crow is glowing orange, and the ground around Fala is ice, and where they meet, it's water.
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B.B.- "You're so stupid, Miroku." (Starts laughing at him)
Miroku - "That's IT!" (Snatches story) "Here you go W.W."
W.W.- "Yes, MINE!" (Evil demented laugh)
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Miroku - "It's so hot in here." (Starts sweating)
Fala - (walks into the room, ice in her wake, just in time to hear Miroku's complaint. Walks up to him) "Ok." (Touches him and walks out. Miroku turns into iceman)
Miroku - "Brrrr"
W.W.- "Must...Push...Ice pervert..." (Walks to him and barely touches him with finger)
Miroku - (slides uncontrollably along ice path) SLAM! (Miroku hits wall on one side of the doorway. Ice shatters off him and he lies there twitching as all laugh)
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Trees were flung into the air as whatever it was came closer. With a roar that sent birds miles away shooting out of the trees, the creature came into view.
"What the hell!" Ankha said in an astounded voice. 'I am never jogging in these woods ever again.' She continued in her thoughts.
The creature looked to be a giant...troll. It stood sixty feet tall, it's brown skin covered in large growths and boils. In its left hand, it held a mace and in its right there was a stone club. The smaller 'things', the ones that first arrived, were dancing around the trolls feet and pointing at the two female demons.
"Are these things normal in your woods?" Ankha asked Rorrim. Dumbfounded, the girl shook her head.
"I've never seen the like. Do you know what they are?"
"Big." Then the cat demon snorted and corrected herself. "Well, the dangerous one is. The rest are hardly consequential." Quickly, she took stock of her opponent, judging where his weakest spots would be. Every gap in the tough leather armor, every inch of ugly bare skin was carefully noted. A glitter entered the assassin's eyes. This was going to be fun.
The mix demon watched a maniacal smile grow on her companions face, and knew that they weren't going to run. She sighed, looked at the monster, and prepared herself for whatever may come next.
She didn't have long to wait. The troll charged at them, club high above it's head, squishing some of the little goblin-things in it's path.
Ankha was ready for him. As the club came closer, whistling through the air as the giant swung it down, she shoved Rorrim far out of its reach than leapt upon the stone, using it as leverage so she could jump at her enemy's head. As the club landed with a loud crash, Ankha reached the ugly brutes face. Swiftly, she slashed at him, scoring deep in his eye, but not reaching the tiny brain.
Howling, the creature whipped it's hands up to clutch at its injury. Unfortunately, one of the hands smacked his attacker, knocking the wind out of her and sending her flying into a tree. After the initial impact, Ankha fell to crash through several branches until finally landing with a thump on the ground.
Rorrim had her own problems. The little goblins the cat demon thought of as no threat were now bombarding the young mix with an assortment of sharp, pointy things. The girl was holding her own with small, well, balls, of wind that easily deflected the attacks and even reversed it, spraying the implements back down upon her attackers. A few of the objects broke through her defense, but none that caused serious injury to her person. Her foes, however, were not faring as well. In fact, they were dropping like flies. But there seemed no end to them. For everyone she killed, another filled its place immediately.
Ankha rose from her fall, uninjured with the exception of a few light scratches. She was nearly a highest level assassin, a tree wasn't going to stop her. She was amazed it hadn't broken, in fact. But she wasn't going to take anymore chances. She pulled out a dagger, not to throw, the troll's skin was much too thick, and whispered to it. The tiny dagger obediently lengthened into a light rapier. By this time, her enemy was ready to fight again, but Ankha attacked first, knowing that the battle would end soon. She sprang at the troll, not going for his face this time, but for his throat. Her lightening fast strike proved true: the giants neck split open and sickly yellow blood flowed forth from the wound. The assassin quickly got out of the way, and snatched Rorrim from her battle.
The blood rained down on the goblins like an acid shower, melting them into little piles of goo. Their dying shrieks filled the air, sounding like nails on a chalkboard, until there was only silence.
From the bushes came a voice that had haunted Ankha for weeks.
"This is but a mere warning of the wrath you will taste for the death of my magnificent master. Burn in hell, Suneye."
It was Rammahallen.
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"DAMN!" Ankha exclaimed with fury. "I can't find any trace of her!"
They had been searching the surrounding area for a while, and finally the cat demon had to admit defeat. There was not hide nor hair of the fox demon. That didn't mean she had to be happy about it. Currently, she was in the process of breaking a boulder into dust, and being rather successful in her task.
Rorrim's belly growled. Ankha looked up, startled, and remembered the reason they had been going this way in the first place. Her eyes softened and she dropped her boulder, now the size of a medium sized rock.
"Come, you must eat." They continued on their journey to Rorrim's grandmother's place. It wasn't long until the green girl stopped in front of a mass of vines and thorn bushes.
"Come on, Grandma, open up. This isn't funny." 'Has she gone mad? She's talking to a bush!' Ankha thought.
"Fine, I'm sorry I'm late. Can I come in now?" To the cat demon's surprise, her companion wasn't crazy, her home was hidden just beyond the mass of foliage, as was proven when the thorns lifted themselves up and away, leaving only the vines. Rorrim sighed and parted the vines, then walked through. When Ankha didn't follow, a green hand shot out and pulled her in. The thorns closed behind her.
The mix yanked the cat demon into the walled off area and led her to a simple hut. Or, it would have been simple if it hadn't been constantly moving. An elderly woman came out of the shifting house and ran to hug the green girl. The assassin noted her fluffy white hair and swirling silver-white skin. The grandmother looked as insubstantial as the house.
Finally, Rorrim wiggled out of Wind's grasp and introduced her new friend.
"Grandma, this is Ankha. Ankha, this is Grandma." The two woman shook hands. While Rorrim was an innocent, Wind knew what the marks on the cat demons face meant. Ankha saw the recognition flash in her eyes. So why was she being so polite?
As she listened with only half an ear to the Grandmother's berating of the green girl, the answer was evident as she looked around her.
Huge gusts of wind were blowing through the small area. The cat demon watched as all debris and even a squirrel get blown over the thorn wall. She had no doubt that if she behaved badly that wind would be directed at her, and she would most likely be blown into the wall, and ripped to shreds by those strange thorns.
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Ankha - "Well, you wouldn't want to be blown into them either! They were really big, huge even!"
W.W.- "Oh, shut up."
Rain - "Why do you keep telling everybody to shut up?"
W.W.- "You are distracting people from the story."
B.B.- "Yeah!"
W.W.- "Shut up."
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The grandmother turned to the cat demon. "My charge here says you are joining us for lunch." Ankha could see Rorrim stifling her giggles. Shooting the girl a dirty look, she replied the only way she could.
"I would, if you would allow me to." Wind smiled.
"Of course you may stay. We have more than enough." The elderly demon led her and the girl into the house. For all it's looks, it was a real thing.
And so they ate lunch.
It was good.
Let's move on.
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W.W.- "Ok, ok, I know that wasn't a whole lot of detail."
B.B.- "Ah ha!"
W.W.- "Yes, I know, I KNOW!"
B.B.- "Now who need more detail!"
Inuyasha- (to W.W.) "She's got you there."
W.W.- "Inuyasha, do you want to spend more time in a body cast?" (Inuyasha hurriedly shakes head) "No? I didn't think so." (Turns to reader) "Now, I would have had more detail if I knew what people in Japan eat. Besides rice and sushi. How about stew? Everybody likes stew."
B.B.- "W.W.?"
W.W.- "Yes?"
B.B.- "Shut up."
W.W.- (twitchy twitch went the eye)
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Ankha was walking away from the house. Noticing the sun was much lower than it should be, she took off at a run to reach camp before nightfall.
