SO MANY REVIEWS! MARSHMALLOWS ALL AROUND!
Wow... I am now realizing how really creepy and dark this story is getting... ESPECIALLY with what I have planned... For which some of it I never have even told KPK about. For instance, she had no idea about Naena going missing... not to mention the other little tricks and turns coming up... oh boy...(KPK- Cue dramatic muzak! ("Don't Worry, Be Happy" starts playing))
And also, for the miss interrupting person who reads my work, HELL, I AM NOT GAY! (Sorry for those of you who already knew that, but it kinda got on my nerve that someone thought I was. Twas Frustrating)
Of course, I'm also listening to really foreboding music on the jukebox on www . theotaku . com. If you want to, the music I'm listening to is under Final Fantasy seven, called Reactor bombing.
Disclaimer- (Ho, boy. I really gotta shorten my Disclaimers. The last few were a little ridiculous, I have gotta admit. Ah well. We all know what happened last time, so no recap today. So what was it the 6 folksies saw out of the 747 window?)
Sanga- THEY TURNED THE MALL INTO STINKING AMUSEMENT PARK!
Good Felix- Yeah
Shard- Is this why you came and found us?
Good Felix- Yeah
Love Music- Somebody pinch me...This has got to be a nightmare
Good Felix- Oh it's very close
KungPowKitty- Eh?
Good Felix- Well, for starters, evil-me still has your sister hostage, the others still have reversed gravity, and...
Girls- AND...!
Good Felix- I think it'll be better if you just see it for yourself
Sango- Felix is acting sane. This can't be a good sign
(Shard raises her hand)
Love Music- So, uh, how are we supposed to get down there?
(time skip)
Good Felix- HANG ON TIGHT!
KPK- WHY THE DEVIL DID WE CHOOSE HIM TO LAND THIS FLYING BRICK!
Shard- 'Cause he's the only one who's ever played on a flight simulator
Love Music- THAT'S NOT A GOOD REASON!
Sanga- TOO STEEP, TOO STEEP, FELIX! PULL UP!
Love Music- AND WHY THE HECK IS SHE THE CO-PILOT!
Shard- BECAUSE WE DREW STRAWS!
KPK- WHICH WE WILL NEVER DO AGAIN!
(I'll put it simply. Felix is flying the plane, trying to land it. Where? It ain't at the airport, I can tell you that! He's aiming for the only place close by wide enough for a plane this size. The highway. Oh yeah, that's a great mind for right there!)
Sango- AAAAAAAAAAAA!
KPK- Methinks she doesn't like flying
Sango- WHAT MADE YA THINK THAT!
Sanga- (heard through the door; the four non-drivers are buckled in passenger space) NO, DON'T DO THAT! NOT THAT EITHER! WHAT ARE YOU TRYIN' TO DO!
Felix- I am TRYING to land this thing, and YOU are not helping!
Sanga- WELL AT LEAST I- oops
Sango- WHAT DO YOU MEAN "OOPS"!
Felix- This is your captain speaking. I would like to request that the passengers remain calm; we are definitely going to have a bumpy landing! Please do not panic! Ooooooooooooohh boy, are we dead.
Love Music- Well there's an emotional lift up
Shard- What the heck is going on up there!
(plane stops. Just stops. Like it freezes in mid-air and the engines turn off)
KPK- Not good
(plane falls straight down)
All- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
(All done. See? Nice n' short. Believe me, you want it that way with this chapter coming up.)
CHAPTER 26 - Plans Revealed: Part 5: Cold
Flash Back
Naena walked quietly down the sidewalk towards the elementary school, ever so glad that he didn't have to be listening to another one of Inuyasha's picked fights. "I really don't get that guy sometimes..." he said to himself. "There are sometimes when you want to take out a camera and take a picture of how nice he's being with Kagome, and then there are other times when you just want to run his head in with a Disney Magic Cruise Liner!" (Sorry, I just had to use it Aliryn. Last time, I swear)
He looked up at the darkened sky above. It was not darkened because it was getting late; it was only about 3:30 in the afternoon. It was darkened because of the sky, considering it was snowing... again. "This is like the what? Fifth day it's been snowing, give or take?" he pondered aloud. A few people across the street looked at him funny before heading into the store they were headed. Our green haired boy ignored their crazed looks; he usually got a lot worse than that.
He continued to walk down the street, endepthed in his thoughts about numerous things, until he realized the street had become dead silent. Jerking his head up, Naena whirled his head around in all directions. No one.
"Well that's hella creepy..." he said to himself. Wrapping his arms around his body, he continued to walk down the street. ' I'm about two-thirds of the way there, so if I just hurry, I can get back to the shrine,' he thought anxiously. Something wasn't feeling right. It was cold, but there was a different kind of chill in the air, one that made his spine shiver with fear. He began to sweat, feeling the eyes of a predator close to him.
The moment his orb bit around his neck began to glow, that was the last straw. An orb will only glow for two purposes; 1. Is the user is sapping energy from the orb allowing them to get tribute from whatever the type of orb was, or 2. There was a being near that intended harm to the bearer.
Naena slowly continued to walk in a normal pace, his breath making fog in the air, and grabbed onto his right wrist with his left hand. 'One...' he thought fearfully. It was barely recognizable, but Naena could definitely make out footsteps behind him.
"Two..." he whispered to himself. He cracked a few knuckles in his hand, readying it for the transfer of fire.
"THREE!" he screamed at the top his of his might, and whirled around, arm outstretched, already sparking flame. He turned around to face... nothing. Not a soul in sight. Only snow, falling silently. He kept his arm out, and whirled around in all directions. Previous attacks from all sorts of things had taught him never to leave any direction unchecked; including up and down. Finding nothing, he slowly continued onward to his destination, looking down alley ways to be certain he was in the all clear.
Several yards back, a girl popped her head out from behind an building wall. Her name was Myabako, a junior high student who had recently gone to the high school for a school tour; next year would be her freshman year. And, unbeknownst to our green haired boy, she had gotten an instant crush on him.
She giggled to herself, and watched Naena stalk down the sidewalk. 'I wonder... What on earth is he doing?' she thought, running up and hiding behind another building wall, her black ponytail swaying a bit with each step.
She watched him suddenly turn toward an alleyway close to him, and, with arm outstretched, slowly walked inside.
'I know I hear something...' he thought, walking ever so slowly into the crevice between two buildings. He smelled something sweet, like, '...Burning sakura? Wait a minute, burning sakura! Holy Shit!'
Myabako turned her head in confusion, watching her crush come bolting out of the alleyway and turning to go down the street.
What looked like a long arm of smoke shot out of the crevice, wrapped Naena around his neck, and sucked him back in. He screamed before a muffling and sucking sound was heard..
"OH MY GOD!" Myabako bolted in the direction the green haired boy was just sucked into. She smelled something sweet, before having a smoke arm wrap around her neck and pull her back into the alleyway she was just in. It pulled with such force, her neck was snapped in half, right in the middle of her scream. Myabako was silenced forever.
"Ji-Chan, do you think this will help us find Naena?" Kagome asked her grandfather, who was chanting spells with Miroku by his side.
The two didn't answer, they had to keep all of their attention on the spell or it wouldn't hold. They had dug up some of the remaining supplies in the store shed, and had began a tracking spell on one of Naena's anklets; he had a lot of those, wearing a different one every day.
Kagome knew not to push any farther, and didn't. Luckily for her, the doorbell rang. "Oh, finally."
The miko rushed to the door, and opened it to a very concerned looking Eri and Hojo. "Kagome, what is it?" her friend asked.
"Yeah, Higurashi, you said on the phone that it wasn't safe to be alone?"
"Yeah, and for good reason," the girl exclaimed, pulling the two into her house. After shutting the front door, Kagome began to explain everything, down to the last ingredient.
"Okay, I'm freaked out now," Eri squeaked.
"OH NO!" Kagome heard her grandfather cry. "I FORGOT ONE OF THE INGREDIENTS!"
Inuyasha, Sango, and Kagome walked into the kitchen, where the spell was supposed to be taking place. Miroku was still in his trance like chanting, attempting to get the spell to hold on until the last part was added, but it was easy to see he was having trouble with being the only one working at it. "What is it?" the demon exterminator asked.
"LOOK, JUST LOOK!" He held up a piece of paper. "WHERE ON EARTH AM I SUPPOSED TO FIND THAT!"
"The part of a friend who's emotions do not stay," Kagome read aloud. "And who is not what he once was... Okay, I'm confused..."
"Wait a second..." Inuyasha rolled out of his mouth before sprinting up the stairs.
"Huh?"
"Huh?"
"Huh?"
The three (in a fully conscious state) in the room were baffled. Until Inuyasha came back down the stairs...
...with Buyo in his arms.
In Sango's mind, it clicked. "Holy crap, duh! Buyo's injury fits that description perfectly!"
"But," Kagome began. "What part of him? I don't think he'd be too happy with us sawing off one of his legs..."
"Simple. His fur, wench."
Inuyasha smirked, plucked some of the cat's fur out of it's place, and dropped it into the small cask the ritual ingredients had been placed into. After making a rather disgusting smelling puff of smoke, the anklet floated out of the jar, and over to Inuyasha, forcing it's way onto his wrist.
At this time it was still floating on and around his wrist, but it was glowing green. Hojo, Eri, Morobuku, Sangarouka, and Shippou all ran into the room to see what all the fuss was a bout. They're jaws went slightly slack.
"Do I see what I think I'm seeing?" Sanga asked while pointing to the floating, glowing anklet.
"Yea-WHOA!" Inuyasha was now being jolted out of the room, and the anklet pulled the astonished hanyou into the main hallway.
"Well..." Kagome began, quickly running over and putting on her coat. "I guess we're going after Naena now."
Miroku, Sango, Morobuku, Sanga, Hojo, Eri, and Shippou followed suit, while Inuyasha attempted to slow the damned thing made of twine from pulling him out the front door. Hoshido's gang also grabbed their things, and with a quick prayer of hope from Miroku, they all ran out the door, which Inuyasha had been yanked out of only a moment earlier.
"You be careful!" Yanayai called to the large group of teenagers and kit, standing by the front door. Suuna walked up behind her, with Ji-Chan and Sota near as well.
The nurse wrapped her arms around her to keep the bitter chill in the air from getting to her. "Do you think they'll be able to find him?"
"Knowing my daughter..." Ms. Higurashi began, taking a sigh. "... And her eventually-to-be husband, I think they'll be just fine." She smiled, and walked back into the hallway. She cocked her head over to the side, hearing Buyo meowing and hissing in the living room.
Sota came over to her side. "What the-?"
The nurse and elder of the house came up behind them, and all opened the door to the living room together. Buyo came hurtling out, and ran straight into the kitchen. They all sighed, and Sota walked back to the front door, and looked out in the direction of where Inuyasha and the others had just headed.
"Kagome! Do you feel that?" Eri called to her friend, who was desperately trying to keep up with Inuyasha. "Yeah (huff huff) but, what is (huff huff) it?"
The miko and miko in training felt something very strange, and unprecedented chill in the air that didn't seem to be of the weather. A chill that ran down their spines, a chill that could only have caused by the dark arts.
After a few more minutes, Hojo began to recognize several of the landmarks around the area. "Hey, I think it's taking us to the Tokyo Tower!" he called to everyone.
Morobuku rolled that thought over in his mind, still continuing to catch up with the preoccupied half-demon. 'Tokyo Tower?... Why there?'
After about ten more minutes of running, the group got to the top of a hill, and looked off in the not far distance, the Tokyo Tower. But, that was not all seen.
Suuna and Ms. Higurashi were in the kitchen, attempting to get their feline friend to calm down, while Ji-Chan was rummaging around for spirit wards, and Sota was just staring out the kitchen window.
"Buyo, please calm down!" Ms. Higurashi scorned, trying to hold onto the cat. "You're pushing me to drink coffee, you know that!"
The cat continued his meowing and pawing to the sink.
"Hey look, it finally stopped snowing!" Sota cried, pointing excitedly out the window. His mother got up, after handing off the frisky feline to Suuna, and walked over behind her son. "Hmm, I thought the weather man said it was going to keep snowing until Friday..."
Suuna watched the cat, which was excessively trying to get over to the sink. "What is with yo-YEOW!"
The cat clawed her.
Buyo jumped down from the nurses arms, got up to the counter by the sink, and started pawing at the faucet.
Suuna quickly looked over to Yanayai and Sota to see if they were paying any attention. Assured that she was the only one that noticed, she got up and went over to the sink. "What is it, Buyo?... What are you trying to tell me?"
In her mind, the nurse felt like two words were suddenly planted in her thoughts. '...Run... ice...'
The cat jumped down off the counter, and ran out of the room. Suuna wanted to follow the words instructions, but her curiosity got the best of her. Leaning in closer to the faucet, she heard a small crackling sound.
A small drop of water was hanging from the faucet nozzle.
The nurse watched as suddenly the droplet froze.
"Uh... you guys, I think we need to get to the cellar..." she said, slowly inching away from the sink, heading to the doorway.
"Why's that? Hey, do you smell something?" Ji-Chan said, sticking his head out of a cupboard and sniffing the air. "It kinda smells like syrup..."
'Syrup?... THE TREE SAP!' it clicked in the nurse's mind. "RUUUUUUUUUUUN!"
The sink exploded, with ice shooting out of the crevice in the counter. The sink was in midair, but about an inch of ice suddenly formed around it , and connected it to where it had once been placed, only still where it had been in mid air. Within milliseconds, the same inch of ice covered up the kitchen, and all that were in it. The ice raced around the house, covering it all in an inch of ice. Only that after a few moments of being frozen, all of the people and all of the plants in the house emitted a small ghost like sphere. Their soul.
The souls shot out of the house, as if being attracted to something.
In the backyard, the ice was covering everything it it's path. Except Goshinboku. The tree was emitting a kind of heat, keeping the ice from covering it. Buyo huddled in one of the branches.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!" Inuyasha yelled, watching all of the shops around them having their windows crack and then shatter, all the pieces only to be covered up in an inch of ice afterward.
From behind all of them, the shops and the road were quickly being engulfed in the looming tomb of ice.
Only a few moments after, souls began to appear over the opposite horizon of the gang's target, and were heading for the Tokyo Tower.
Even though the layer off ice was not upon them, the road and it's surroundings were beginning to freeze.
On one of the small frozen areas, Yoshima slipped and fell to the pavement. Not a second after she had screamed had Hoshido rushed to her side, and from helping her up off of the ground, the ice swarmed over them, freezing them into place and their souls joining the countless others.
Kagome wished so badly that she could run back, that she could stop and scream for her friends, only she knew that would be her undoing. Terrified as hell, watching a few screaming shoppers beginning to run out of a small bookstore and getting frozen as well, she had to keep running. Just like everyone else.
'Naena...' Osoane thought, following the others down the hill. They were almost at the tower. 'What is going on up there?...'
15 meters away from the Tokyo Tower.
Shippou was riding on Morobuku's shoulder at the moment. 'Hey, what's that?...' He looked up, and realized what the smell was spontaneously. "LOOK! LOOK, SAKURA IS COMING OUT OF THE SKY!"
Indeed, the cherry blossoms were falling down from the sky, like snow.
Ten meters away from the building.
Shippou, still watching the sakura fall shrieked. "INUYASHA! EVERYONE, THE BLOSSOMS, WHERE EVER THEY HIT THE GROUND, ICE SHOOTS OUT!"
Kagome and Sango looked back at the scene behind them, at the people running to the massive Tower as well. Beyond their figures, the sakura was beginning to hit the ground, and ice spires shot from their wake. But, they didn't look like spires at all. "They look like a mushroom shaped cloud," Sango said to her friend.
Five meters away.
Then Kagome realized. "Wait a minute, the sack was of sakura from World War Two, and was delivered from..." It hit her. 'Nagasaki...' "RUN FASTER! HOLY SHIT RUN FASTER!"
The others looked back at her with confusion, until the mushroom cloud spires did just what Kagome knew would happen. Explode.
Three meters.
The ice spires burst out into thousands of dagger like pieces, shooting out in every direction. Several pieces hit nearby buildings, and the inch thick ice began to spread from the epicenters of each hit. The rest of the ice sliced through the other people running for their lives.
Two.
Inuyasha jumped ahead and punched open the lobby door.
One.
The gang all leaped as far as their legs would let them. Inuyasha slammed the lobby doors just in time so the ice sickles would pierce into those and not his friends. Sangarouka directed them all around the tower lobby, sending the gang towards the elevator.
"Sanga?" Miroku asked.
"Hold on! Take a right here!" she called. Turning her head to face the houshi. "What?"
"How do you know where everything is?"
"Duh, I got a job here. Where do you think I go during the day, the spa?"
"There it is!" our hanyou said, just as the lobby the doors were heard shattering to pieces and getting frozen over by the ice. Continuing to run forward, Inuyasha began to notice that the anklet around his wrist was glowing lighter, and was slowly beginning to pulsate. ' I guess we're getting close...'
Cramming into the elevator, Sango attempted to push the button to go up, since Inuyasha was now pinned to the ceiling from being pulled in that direction. Nothing happened.
Sango pressed the up button again and again, listening to everyone's winces listening to parts of the tower getting frozen and shattering. Still nothing happened.
She was about to punch the freakin button when she saw a reading up at the top of the elevator. 'Too much weight. Please have some people wait outside the elevator to lighten the load.'
"You guys..." the demon exterminator said quietly, getting the people's attention, somewhat. She supposed the sakura was landing inside the building now, since ice shards were occasionally shooting through the walls. "Someone has to get out, or we aren't going anywhere."
The entire group began looking around at each other, trying to coax the other into leaving the small room, to be frozen over for certain. Tensions began to get high; they could see the inch of ice coming around the hallway.
He took a deep breath, and stepped out of the elevator. He smiled to his the girl he loved, who was in shock. "What're you doing!"
"I'm leaving the elevator. You guys just go get Naena back alright, okay?"
Tears slowly ran from her eyes. "But... the ice-"
"I know, I know. I'll take on the responsibility to keeping the rest of you going. Someone push the button."
The closest being to the dial board pressed the small button, and the elevator doors began to close.
Two other people of the group had to hold the girl back from pressing the open doors button. "NO, NO, YOU CAN'T DO THIS! I WON'T LET YOU! GET BACK IN HE-"
He smiled, took a sigh, and the door closed. As the elevator began to climb skyward at a high speed, the sound of the hallway they were just in echoed up into the chamber. The girl broke down in tears. "NO! DON'T DO THIS TO ME!
The small room made it's way up the center shaft, closing in on the top level of the tower.
Are you wondering who took the part of getting iced? Very noble indeed what he did.
Not my best writing, but I wrote this when I was getting frustrated at my parents and computer. Parents, its enough said; their parents. But the computer had shut down on me twice without warning, deleting all of the chapter I had written.
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