Okay heres the first chapter done....finally. I would like to thank the people who have reviewed so far and plz keep them coming, and PLZ give me sergestions I have a general idea of the story line its just the minor things really. Well anyway heres Ch1 Plz enjoy.....
Chapter 1: The last of a race
It was a beautiful day the sun was shining, there were no clouds in the sky, and there was gentle breeze coming from the north. The scent of flowers and various foods mingled together, give the air a very sweet smell. Most of the people in Tokyo had a smile on their face as they sat in the front of cafes, or walked down the street. Some were alone, others were chatting with the person next to them, and others were just content petting their en-slaved demon. Some of the demons looked all most human, except for the hair, eyes, ears, claws, and/or tail they had. And others resembled some kind of animal everything from cats to birds and even some kinds of reptiles. Despite their different looks all of the demons had one thing in common; they all had a collar on their neck. The collar didn't look special, a simple piece of one inch wide metal, however in was the only thing that kept the demons more aggressive instincts at bay, it would also not allow them to harm any human, and force them to do anything the human ordered under the penalty of pain.
The collar was give to every demon child that was born. For the first three months of its life a demon was free, but after that on went the collar marking it as a slave. However, a demon could win its freedom if it so wished. The only way a demon could win its freedom, and have the collar removed, was to fight. Not in an army but in an arena against another demon. The demon left standing, alive, was the winner and was freed. This law only came into existence 97 years ago; however, in the whole world the number of free demons was only two. And these two were the ones that any demon who wanted their freedom had to beat. To date the two had managed to come out victorious in 194,023 fights. They could have left, roamed the earth like their ancestors, but they stayed and fought, and had been doing so for the past 97 years. Such power didn't go unnoticed by the Miko order, and so on this beautiful day two girls were walking down the main street of Tokyo on their way to a place neither of them wanted to go.
Kagome Higurashi and Rin Higurashi walked down the street, neither of the two were in a good mood. After Kagome had been given the order by Kikyo too go and claim the only two free demons on the planet as their own, she had nearly blown up a large portion of her home. Kagome still remembered the look on her older sisters face, and she smirk.
It was early morning in the Higurashi mansion, and Kagome had just woken up. She didn't know why but she got the feeling that something bad was going to happen to her today. She didn't have to wait long to find out what it was. Kikyo, her older sister and head chairman, or chairwomen, of the Asian branch of the Miko order, asked if she could talk with Kagome in her office.
"Kagome, please have a seat." she said motioning to a chair in front of her large mahogany desk she was sitting behind
Kagome sat in the armchair, never taking her eyes off of Kikyo. There was a moment's silence, and then Kikyo spoke.
"Kagome, are your aware of the way a slave (she's referring to demons) can gain its freedom?"
Kagome only nodded. She was well aware of how a demon could gain its freedom. It had to fight and kill another demon in combat. However, to her knowledge there were no free demons.
"Good" said Kikyo" And do you know how many free slaves there are?"
"To my knowledge there are no free de...slaves" she had nearly made the mistake of saying demons instead of slaves. If there was one way to piss off Kikyo it was to say demon.
"Wrong, Kagome" said Kikyo "in this world there are two slaves that are free."
"What?" asked Kagome confused "When? How?"
"They won their freedom a long time ago. 97 years ago to be precise. However once they won they didn't leave. Instead they decided to stay in the arena to challenge any other who wanted to be free. To date they have a record of 194,023 wins to 0 losses" said Kikyo looking down at a piece of paper on her desk
Kagomes mouth was gapping. 194,023 wins!! No way could any demon be that powerful. It just wasn't possible.
"What information do we have on it?" she asked
"Not it, dear sister, them." said Kikyo not looking up from the paper
"Them?"
"Yes, there two, and these two are old, very old and thus we don't have much information on them. But what we do know is that they're both male, are brothers, and the younger one is only half slave."
"THAT'S IT?!"
"Oh there's one more thing." Added Kikyo
"What?"
"Their dog slaves….supposedly."
"D-d-dog demons!" said Kagome before she realized she had said the "d" word "But I thought they were all wiped out at Sekigahara centuries ago."
The race known as Inu-Youkai, or dog demons, was the most powerful and uncontrollable of the demon races. Unlike their mortal counterparts, canines, Inu-Youkai were no friends of mankind. After the Miko had enslaved the demon races they were the only ones that would refuse to bow to them. They 'refused to bow to a weak race' as their leader, Inukai, had yelled to the Miko army at Sekigahara. And so the Miko leaders of the time made a decision, if the Inu-Youkai would not be enslaved they would be destroyed. The Miko leaders gathered their armies and met Inukai's forces on the field of Sekigahara. Though the battle started at dawn it lasted into the night though the next day and into that night. It was then that the tides were turned. The Inu-Youkai had been toying with the Miko army; they hadn't even shown their true power yet. The moon on the night of the second day was a full one, and it was then that the Inu-Youkai showed why they were known as the canine gods, for all humanoid youkai can transform into a demon version of their mortal counterpart. For example and wasp demon could transform into a massive wasp, and the poison in its stinger could melt steel.
Though all demons could transform the Inu-Youkai were special because whenever it was a full moon they, not only automatically became giant dogs their power was also raised by an incredible amount. What happened when Inukai's forces when bathed in the light of the full moon is best described by a quote from the section "A Blood Red Moon" in the chapter "The Slaughter of Sekigahara" from the book 'The War That Saved The World'….
'…and the clouds parted revealing a silver coin high in the sky lighting up the blackness of the night. The struggle that had raged for two days halted, as the army of Inukai raised their heads, they seemed to be transfixed by the moon as they closed their eyes and swayed back and forth to an unheard music. Suddenly out of the silence a long sorrowful howl was heard though out the valley of Sekigahara the sound reverberated off the walls of the valley making it sound as if a hundred dogs wear howling in pain. Inukai stood upon the top of a jagged rock that pierced the flesh of the earth. He was calling to the moon, his head thrown back towards the sky and he called for help. The moon no longer held its sliver light, but seemed to run red in blood. The army of Inukai all stopped swaying at the same time and in unison opened their now blood red eyes.
Their faces started to elongate into snouts and their bodies changed into those of monstrous dogs. Their size was such that no light reached the armies of Mikos on the ground. They lost all signs of humanity, what ever shreds they had to start with were eradicated as the blood lust took control, fuelled by the light of the blood moon…'
It was only luck that allowed the Mikos to win that day, for Midoriko, greatest of the Mikos, blocked the power of the moon weakening the Inu-youkai enough for them to all be killed. The slaughter of Sekigahara, for that is what it was, was never forgotten and was never allowed to be repeated for all of Inukai's forces and the rest of his race, was wiped out. At least that is what was supposed to have happened, so how could these two demons be Inu-Youkai?
"So did I" said Kikyo continuing as if the "d" word had never been said "But apparently two survived."
"So why are you telling me this?"
"Both me and mother believe that slaves of such power should not be allowed to be free. So we want them."
"What?" said Kagome blankly; she did not just hear that. They already had a hundred different demons.
"I want you to go to this address and collect the two slaves. After their last fight they are no longer free. They will belong to us."
"WHAT!?!?" screamed Kagome jumping to her feet. Her aura spilled off her body singeing the carpet. If she wasn't careful she could blow up the house. Kikyos normally emotionless face filled with fear.
Kagome, seeing that look, smirked and calmed down. She liked messing with Kikyo, one of the few perks she had found in life.
"Fine" she said with a sigh "I will go and collect our new slaves. But I'm taking Rin, too."
With that she walked out off the office, leaving behind a very shaken up Kikyo.
Kagome and Rin continued down the street in silence, finally Rin spoke.
"Kagome" said Rin "Why do we have to go get two more demons?"
"Who knows" said Kagome as the two turned into an office building "I can guess though. These two are powerful, very powerful, and I bet Kikyo just wants them for that." she said as they stopped in font of the front desk, a young women sitting behind it looked at them as they approached and smiled.
"Hello" she said cheerfully "May I help you two?"
"Yes" said Kagome smiling, too "I'm Kagome Higurashi and this is my sister Rin Higurashi, we're here to pick up two new slaves."
"Ah, Miss. Higurashi, yes. I was told you would be coming. I'm afraid the two demons you want are about to go into a fight. You will have to wait until they're done."
Hearing this gave Kagome an idea.
"Do you mind if we watch the fight?"
Rin stared at her in shock. She wanted to watch!? Why? Then it hit her, she wanted to see how strong they were.
"You wish to watch?" asked the girl "Very well" she stood "This way please." she said leading the way to an elevator. Kagome and Rin following.
Stepping into the elevator, the women hit a red button and the elevator started to descend. After what seemed like an age, it stopped. The doors opened up onto a long brightly lit hallway. Leading the way the women walked down the hallway, to steel doors with two mammoth men guarding it. The women walked past the men without incident, but when Kagome and Rin tried they stopped them. Looking over her shoulder the women chuckled.
"Its okay guys, they're with Me." she said and the guards let them pass
The women opened the doors in front of them. The doors opened onto a massive circular room. Putting it simply it looked like someone had taken the Roman Coliseum and put it underground. The stands were nearly full with spectators. Kagome grunted as she looked around. Just goes to show you what some people find entertaining. Personally she didn't think seeing two demons fight to the death was at all entertaining, in fact she didn't even like the ideas of slaves. Looking down into the arena far below them Kagome saw a small army of demons standing in it. Gaping Kagome tried counting them, but stopped when she got to a hundred. Looking at the women who had led them down here she asked.
"Isn't this fight a little unfair?"
"Hum?" said the women looking at Kagome in mild surprise "Unfair?" she looked down at the small army of demons in the arena "Hum. You're right it is unfair"
'I thought so'thought Kagome 'no way could two demons win against that.' Thinking she had a good idea Kagome was rudely stripped of this thought when she heard what the women said next
"Perhaps if there was another hundred or so demons in there then it would be fair."
Kagome gapped at her.
"I meant it was unfair for the other two" clarified Kagome "not those guys."
"What?" asked the women with an aura of amusement "You obviously haven't seen these two fight, have you?"
Kagome shook her head.
"I thought so" said the women looking down at the arena as a large metal gate opened at the opposite end of the arena form the group of demons "just watch and fond out."
Kagome turned her head just in time to see two demons casually walk out into the arena.
"Oh my…" said Kagome quietly in amazement. She also heard Rin take a sharp intake of breath at was now standing in the arena.
Two silver haired demons now stood thirty feet away from the demons, which were all staring at them. One of them, the shorter of the two, wore all red. He wore only pair of red lose fitting trousers, which were tight around his waist and ankles, and an open red sleeveless kimono that reached the middle of his shins. His eyes were golden and held an air of mixed amusement and anger, his silver hair reached to the small of his back. And on his head were….
'DOG EARS!?'screamed Kagomes mind 'He must be the half-demon so that means that he must be…'
Kagome switched her attention to the taller of the bothers. He must have stood over six feet tall, his silver hair reached all the way to his ankles, and he had no dog ears, instead his human ears were pointed. On his face Kagome could make out some strange markings, but she was to far away to see them in detail. He wore basically the same as his brother, except his was all white with red flowers in hexagons covering his left shoulder of his kimono which was also tied up around his waist by a purple and yellow sash, he also wore black shoes were as his brother was barefoot. Both of the brothers were carrying a sword at their sides.
Kagome looked over at Rin and saw her mouth was hanging open slightly.
"It's him."
She heard her younger sister say, in barely more than a whisper. Kagome turned in time to see two pairs of golden eyes on her and her sister. They bowed and then turned to face their opponents. The women next to her chucked.
"I think they know who you two are."
"But how cou…." She stopped when she heard the blood curtailing scream.
Looking down at the arena she saw that the dog eared one was now in the middle of the enemy. He appeared to have just torn the throat out of an unsuspecting wasp demon with his teeth, for blood ran down his face from his mouth. He was now crouched on all fours snarling at the bewildered demons around him.
TBC....
K thats that done, the second Ch is in working right now but Im not sure how long it will take me to finish because of school so it may not be too soon. Plz review and give me your opinions. thanks