Chapter 5

The creatures took the girls by complete surprise.  They had no chance at getting their weapons out before the attack, so the creatures gained the advantage quickly.  About four wolves jumped onto Kagome and pinned her to the ground.  Three dogs jumped on Kikyo and bit her arms and legs causing her to have great pain.  Meanwhile Ayame was trying to fight off the weird toad demons who kept repeatedly hitting her with their staffs.  And poor Sango was being pummeled by six raccoons.  But they only had that advantage for a little while.

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''Get off of me!'' Kagome screamed as she used her vines to whack them away.  As soon as they were off, Kagome pulled out two of her arrows and struck the first two causing them to explode.  The third one tried to attack her while she was busy with the first two, but he was too slow and too loud so Kagome was able to kill it.  After the third one was killed she cautiously looked around for the fourth wolf and kept her bow and arrow at ready.  He was nowhere to be seen.  And when she finally realized where he was it was too late.  The wolf jumped out of the trees and bit deeply into her right shoulder.

''You're going to wish you never did that.'' Kikyo said as she used her water powers to knock them off of her.  When they were off she pulled out her katana's and quickly used her razor sharp blades of water to kill the first one.  But the other two were a lot faster, and came at her from either side.  Luckily she was fast as well and was able to dodge the attack, making the other two collide head first into each other.  She then sliced the second dog with her sword.  She had to admit that the dogs were a lot better then the first time they had fought but they were still not enough to defeat her. Or so she thought.

''Ow, that hurt!'' Ayame exclaimed as the toad whacked her on the head. She was getting tired of this game and whipped out one of her darts, set it on fire and threw it at the first one.  He quickly burst into flame. As soon as the second one noticed that she was starting to fight back he decided to use the staff of heads on her. The staff had two heads at the top of it, one was a young maiden.  The second one was the head of an old man that reminded Ayame of Master Toutousai.  While she was distracted in deep thought the mouth of the old man opened and out of it came fire.  Fortunately Ayame noticed the fire coming at her and got of the way.  Unfortunately she wasn't fast enough and her arm got burnt a little.  She was surprised though that the fire had hurt, considering fire was her element, but she wasn't going to let the toad notice this and pulled out another dart and got ready to throw.

 ''Okay! I've had enough of this.''  Sango yelled as her winds blew the raccoons away.  ''It's time to end this!'' She pulled out her boomerang and got ready to fight.  Soon after she pulled out her boomerang the first four came charging at her. She threw her hiraikotsu and was able to rip them into pieces but before she could grab her boomerang again the other two who where still standing started rolling towards her.  She didn't have enough time to get out of the way so she got the full force of the attack.  Sango lay on the ground for a few seconds before she got up.  But as soon as she was standing they started the attack again.

Kikyo charged at the last and final dog with her katana's in hand but just as she was about to attack the dog lunged at her and grabbed onto Kikyo's swords.  She tried the shake the dog off of her weapons but he just would not let go.  Suddenly the dog pulled them from Kikyo's hands and threw about ten feet away from them.  Kikyo was shocked; she couldn't believe that the mangy mongrel was able to unarm her.  She was so shocked in fact that she didn't even notice the mutt was charging right at her.  When she got hit by the canine she was flung back a few feet, but instead of getting back up she lay motionless on the ground.

Sango was also having a hard time.  She was badly wounded by all the blows she had received from the raccoons rolling attack that she wasn't sure if she could hold up much longer.  Suddenly an idea hit her, as the raccoons came around for another attack she got ready herself.  Just before they were able to hit her again she started to spin around really fast and was capable of making an enormous whirlwind that engulfed them.  Once they gone she scanned the area for the others, her eyes fell upon Ayame who seemed to be in pretty bad shape as well.  Sango grabbed her hiraikotsu and was about to go assists Ayame when her strength went out and made her collapse to the ground.

Ayame threw her fire dart at the toad, but he easily dodged it.  So she pulled out five more set them on fire and tried again.  Unfortunately he was able to escape the slander again.  By this time Ayame was beginning to get really crossed that without warning her hair began to glow a faint reddish-orange and two flames appeared in each hand.  She swiftly tossed them at the annoying fiend.  The first one he was able to elude, but the second one was a direct hit.  Ayame thinking that he was defeated turned around and started to walk away, but before she was capable of getting five centimeters away from the battle site something whacked her on the back making the wind knock out of her.  Her body was beginning to weaken and her eyelids started to get heavy.  But just before she fell unconscious she turned herself around to see who had attacked her.  It seemed that she didn't finish off the toad like she thought she did.

Kagome screamed out in pain as the wolf bit even deeper into her shoulder.  She quickly jabbed the wolf in the stomach making it let go of her.  She gripped her shoulder which stopped the blood from flowing for a little while. She turned around to face the wolf, and before Kagome could pull out an arrow to defend herself, the beast came running at her.  It butted her in the stomach and made her skid across the ground until she banged into a tree.  She sat there thinking that this was the end for her; she could see the wolf was getting closer and was eyeing her neck.  It lunged at Kagome and was about to bite her neck when a voice yelled.

''FIRE REAVER SOUL STEALER!''  A flash of silver hair was all Kagome saw before she fell unconscious.