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The once cozy cave was full of agonized moans of the poor workers who were nearly slaved to death the last night. Excluding two people, everyone was on the ground clutching their back or an equally agonizing limb.
"Ohayo minna-san! Oh, still asleep?" Sango was answered only by a series of groans and muffled wails.
"Are you sure we haven't overworked them Sango?"
"Nope. They had this coming." She somehow still managed to look really…creepy. (A pair of devil horns and a tail comes to mind.)
She decided to get a breath of fresh air and headed outside, the morning sun greeting her like a cheerful mailman. She simply smiled and drew in a nice deep breath of the crisp morning atmosphere.
-Inside the Headquarters-
"Ahh, arigatou Kagome-sama. I feel right as rain now! No thanks to that youkai woman…"
Kagome had been busy in the meanwhile- it was up to her to ease sore muscles and "broken" backs (being a water elementalist has its perks after all). Letting out a breath of exhaustion, she mumbled, "Ugh. No problem…" and lurched outside to take a bath.
While the rest of the women were outside, Miroshin decided to strike up a conversation.
"Oi, Miroku, that was a pretty slick move you put on Sango last night," he said with a perverted grin.
Miroku could only blush and mutter a quick "Arigatou otou-san," before he tried to turn away and face the wall (like there's anything interesting back there).
'Miroku, blushing?!' thought Inuyasha. 'Is the world really coming to an end?'
Meanwhile, Mirosuke decided to join in the fun. "Aye, I remember when I was back in Japan. I proposed to your grandmother the very same way-"
"Umm, grandfather-"
"And I too with your mother!" Interrupted Miroshin.
"She couldn't say no to my unltra-slickness!"
"Same here!"
The little quips kept coming at him like a hail storm-a few more minutes of this and Miroku's head would be finding it self scattered all over. Clutching his head in tortured agony, he stood up, screamed "YAMERO!!!!!" and dashed like a demon towards the entrance.
He was almost there when…
#Trip# "Woaaaaaaah--#Crash#"
The hapless monk had tripped over a pile of scrolls that had been lying around for some reason. While he was dazed and attempting to get up…
"Woah, where did you ever get these scrolls featuring scantily clad women?"
"I got them from some perverted painter in Kyoto. Why do you ask?"
"Eh, I was wondering if I could get some-"
He froze when he saw Miroku slowly turn towards them.
"Oi Miroku, daijoubu?...huh? Oh crap-"
Even Inuyasha quailed at the sight of the enraged monk. 'Kami, he looks almost exactly like Kagome when she's royally ticked off, except 500 times worse…'
His left eyebrow twitching in anger, he asked in a (frighteningly) calm voice, "So good old grandfather here cause me to trip just because he was looking at…. 'pictures' and laid them out everywhere? I'm not in a good mood minna-san, so I highly suggest you don't anger me more than I already am."
Silence…
And then Mirosuke piped up, "So you want to take a look at them? They're very nice-"
The #SMACK# that followed managed to shake the entire cave from top to bottom.
'#Sigh#' thought Inuyasha. 'Lechers are all the same, aren't they?'
Miroku was just about to give his grandfather another Monk-style beat down when Sango and Kagome dashed in, looking distraught. "Kagome-sama? Sango? What's wrong?"
"We're under attack! I-it's a huge force of a bunch of demons!"
"Nani?!" Surprised, the entire gang rushed outside…
And were greeted by about 150 demons of various shapes and sizes.
'Kuso,' thought Inuyasha, 'and we just woke up and recovered too.'
Wearing a grim mask, Miroku bravely said, "There's no point in standing here for them to kill us. Ready everyone?" Luckily, everybody had their weapons in hand.
"Chaaaaarge!!!"
Miroshin and Mirosuke, who were not quite as young as they used to be, stayed behind and began chanting.
"Kaze. Atemi. Fuzei. Wind Fist!"
A large "glob" of air sprang forth from the monks' hands and smashed apart the front line of the demons, allowing the rest of the gang to charge in and blow apart the dazed attackers.
"Daichi. Hana. Kongou. Diamond Edge!"
"Kaze. Doku. Sui. Corrosive Miasma!"
"Ho. Rai. Boruto. Lightning Bolt!"
Wanting to keep it simple, Kagome decided to simply fire into the crowd.
The effects of the Corrosive Miasma and the Lightning Bolt were catastrophic. Dozens of Demons were disintegrated on contact, and scores more gave the fighters a wide berth.
Bad mistake.
"Ho. Ibuki. Shonetsu. Infernal Breath!"
Inuyasha took a deep breath, then let it out again like a dragon. Once more, demons were killed like flies.
"My turn!" shouted Sango. "Daichi. Kugutsu. Ganseki. Stone Golem!" With a flick of her hand, the earth beneath her began rumbling, then soon began forming into a humanoid shape. A few moments later…
"Attack!" The 20-foot tall golem stomped forward and began swatting away demons. But one managed to sneak through. "Hiraikotsu!" shouted Sango, while her boomerang flew towards its target.
Bullseye.
Then she suddenly sensed something behind her: in other words, an angry looking imp with a spear in his hand. The imp screamed wildly, and charged while flailing its spear-like weapon…
So Sango simply crouched down, yanked the spear out of the imp's hands, gave it a death glare, then channeled energy through her hand into the weapon. The spear was so flimsy that instead of simply shattering into bits and pieces, it became a small pile of dust and settled on the ground.
The imp, completely cowed now, squealed and attempted to flee but brained by a rock-wielding Shippo.
And so the carnage resumed.
-About 30 minutes later-
After the golem managed to destroy a good number of demons, the offenders suddenly stopped and backed away-but not in total retreat.
'What are they doing?' thought Kagome. Usually demons don't stop attacking unless…
"Inuyasha!" she shouted. "I think these demons are under someone's control!"
A voice that wasn't Inuyasha's grated, "About time you figured that out you foolish ningen."
Everyone turned towards the source of the noise and saw a quartet of evil looking demons strutting arrogantly towards them. The one on the farthest left had a feral look on his face; the one next to him had a look of pure insanity and appetite for destruction; the blue-hued demon on the right had a cold, calculating look. Finally, the one on the farthest right had a stolid, blank look.
"We are under orders to send you to the next world," stated the same demon.
"Under who's orders?" Retorted Inuyasha.
The flaming demon on the left simply snorted and said, "What use do the dead need of information? Prepare to die." It suddenly raised its arms and let out a huge pillar of fire straight at Inuyasha.
"Argh!" Inuyasha barely managed to dodge. 'Ugh…that was close…' He turned to the rest of the fighters and yelled, "Oi, minna, they're not your average demon grunt! Be careful!" He got a few nods of response.
'Kuso…that blast would have taken me a while to concentrate if I was using it myself…but he just whipped it out on whim. Who are these guys?'
The rest of the demon quartet laughed (except the one on the far right-the last one) and its apparent leader, the blue one, replied mockingly, "You're right: we aren't your average demons. Now be quiet and prepare to die!"
Everyone put up their weapons as the air tensed. It would only take one sudden move to initiate the battle.
And who else but Inuyasha made that move?
"You die first you b######s! Ho. Rai. Boruto. Lightning Bolt!"
"Pitiful hanyou!" The flaming demon simply dodged Inuyasha's attack and struck him contemptuously across the face, causing Inuyasha to fly backwards.
"Inuyasha!!" Shouted Kagome. Suddenly she had the blue demon in front of her.
"Scream wench!" It blasted Kagome with a powerful jet of water, knocking her backwards too.
"Houshi-sama! We must stick together!
…"Demo, Houshi-sama?"
"I'm a little…#grunt# busy right…now…Sango…Argh!" Miroku was trying to fend off the crazed demon as it tried to slice him with its scythe like arms.
"Ehehehehe! Blood! Destruction! Dieeeee!!" It blew Miroku into a small whirlwind that lifted him up into the sky.
"H-Houshi-sama!" shouted Sango. She suddenly felt a large presence behind her.
"Your fight is with me, b####." Before Sango could react, it grabbed her by the throat and began squeezing.
By now, Miroshin and Mirosuke dashed as fast as they could to help their comrades, but the fire demon created a large ring around the battle ground, effectively shutting off the monks from the fight.
"Heh heh heh… Fools. You could never defeat us, the Four," the demons said in unison.
"Jigoku the Incinerator."
"Shougan the Hell Frost."
"…Geh heh heh heh!" #sigh# "He is Tatsumaki the Gale Bringer."
"Jishin the Ruiner."
Once again, they spoke in unison; "No humans can defeat us, for we are perfect. We are the only true demons alive who have true elemental powers here. Fear us, mortals."
'Demons with full elemental powers?!' thought Miroku. 'This does not bode well…
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