Of paralisis and Pride
I stand tall reading the youkai's jaki instantly, it doesn't seem to be too much of a threat, I am I am reading two other youkai who are with him, but by the patterns of their jaki, they don't seem to be friendly with the intruder at all. Then it fits in, Mr Frostbite was expecting his general…I wonder if he is one of the two. I turn to him, my wrists crackling with red hot lightning bolts. His mouth, a thin line, frowns slightly.
"You, remain here, I will see to this personally." Sesshoumaru commands me as if I am one of his subjects. Doesn't he remember that I can fight?! Hello, I may be female, but that 'play the hero' role does not work on me! My amber eyes cut as I fly towards him with my finger pointed. He doesn't even bother to turn around when I turn my hips to face his tall back, overflowed with silver locks.
"You will need help if it's that Naraku or one of his cronies. Don't act like you don't need anyone!" He turns back to me on a swivel of a precisely placed heel and his laser gold eyes target me. I fold my arms across my chest and eye him; does he really think he can leave me behind?! Yet his eyes lose their sharpness, and return to their normal, shallow state. I feel almost disappointed, I liked it when he got angry with me, at least he showed some type of emotion towards me.
"I need you to be here. Get Rin to her room. Now." His concrete solid voice tells me that he means business. A wisp of something darts through his eyes as he turns from me, I feel my lips part slightly in protest, but I let them close. I turn to face the smiling Rin and go to pick her up. With Rin in my arms, I catch a fleeting glance at the silver tai-youkai darting towards the unknown foe. I realize that my hard gaze turned soft somewhere though our conversation and I don't know when. Then I picked up something rather peculiar…the youkai's jaki does not seem to be the level it actually is. It now seems a lot stronger the more I focus on it. I suppress a gulp as I hear rins bell-like voice ting.
"Don't worry Ryoko-chan, Sesshoumaru-sama knows what he is doing, he is the strongest Lord in all the lands!" Rin's chocolate eyes sparkle as I pick her up and teleport quickly to her room, the pink papered and dried flowered decorated room whose wall had been splintered by my hentai-prevention attack. I will have to repair the wall for Rin's sake, though I won't enjoy it.
"I sure hope he does kid." My amber eyes cloud over in a slight nervousness, what if Mr. Frostbite really can't handle this guy on his own? What if this thing is one of Naraku's little cronies, or Naraku himself! I gasp in realization and I turn to go when all of the sudden she clings to my sleeve, her eyes wide with amazement. What as got the kid worked up this time? My cyan hair shifts as I kneel down to her height.
"Can I do the teleportation thingy again!" I sweat drop. I give her one of my trademark grins as halfway phase through her door. I look at her gazing at me, and her gaze is so filled with emotion, it almost reminds me of Sasami…what have I gotten myself into? I wish Tenchi where here, he'd know exactly what to do. My disposition dampens.
"When I get back from helping your dad; we will." She jumps up in happiness and gives me a hug goodbye just as that toad thing, Jaken, enters the room looking cross. I break from the fond hug to look at Jaken's angry green face. What is his problem? I have not done anything wrong…yet. His large yellow eyes lay heavily upon me and I feel like using my hair-needles against him again.
"Lord Sesshoumaru told you to stay and guard the palace you stupid woman! I cannot guard Rin and palace by myself!"he states solidly, but I cannot help but think how cute it is that he is worried about Rin. I look at him with a mischievous grin and my wrists crackle a crimson red and two bolts of light emit from the palms and disappear. Being a youkai summoner does have its perks you know. He looks at me as if I just turned purple and grew an extra head…feh.
"Take a look outside Jaken." As he looks out Rin's pink papered window, I teleport outside to the clearing where two elemental youkai stand defensively. One is of female stature, wearing a light blue kimono with a sapphire blue obi. She has with long teal hair that touches the ground in waves. In her hand is an intricate scepter with a sapphire orb at the top. The other looks like a sunset stained tiger with three long thin tails with tufts of flame at their ends. The tiger's fangs are sharp and long, as well as his claws and his animalistic gaze looks as if fire is being bred right in them.
"This shall do the trick, just don't make them mad toady and you will fare fine!" I race across the tree line in a cyan streak, hoping that this foe won't be as powerful as my senses are telling me it is. My cyan hair whips behind me and clutch my fingers in a fist. He thinks he can leave me behind to face a youkai this powerful! Does he not know what he is getting himself into?! The youkai jaki that I am reading is tricky, but there is no denying it, he is seems just as powerful as Sesshoumaru.
I look towards the clearing, near my youkai adversary, glaring at me smugly with his sharp orange eyes. Yet I am looking at my general Akira, who looks very battered and worse for the wear. His straight maroon hair comes down to his middle back in tangled locks, and his emerald eyes look at mine in a state of panic, yet his bleeding lips do not move. His scraped hands are clutched in clawed fists, burning with his jaki. On his head is the insignia of the crescent moon, which is emerald in color, and his long gray tail, is over one shoulder is slightly bloody, and his sword is nowhere to be seen.
'The other youkai, Kouga is missing' his shackles are on the ground the lock broken easily. Akira looks at me with a sharp anxious glare. Yet there is something wrong with his Jaki…I do not understand what it is, but usually jaki wavers in intensity, but his is not wavering at all. Now that I think about it, he hasn't moved at all…something is wrong.
"Sesshoumaru, lord of the western lands, thank you for coming. I see you have already met our other guest, Akira, but I am afraid that he will not be joining us in this fight." I look at the orange eyed menace. He is tall, taller than I am, but that does not intimidate me, I am not intimidated of anything, especially a spawn of Narku which I can definitely tell he is.
"Get out of my lands you tainted bastard of Naraku." I state in a monotone, he is given a chance to use his wits and retreat, yet he regards me with a humorous glance that irks me somewhat. I do hate arrogant opponents, but they are easier to defeat.
"I see the pleasure is all mine…to take your head that is." This youkai is exceedingly calm, and even though he does seem somewhat powerful, it is a weakness to be this arrogant. The youkai is human like in form, its pitch black straight hair comes down to his lower back, his sharp, orange eyes complete with slit pupils are thin and precise, lidded with a dark green. He has a long halberd in his grip, the weapon looks foreign. I do not know what type of youkai he is, but he has a pair of large green bat-like wings that are strong despite their thinness. I scoff and take Tokijin from its sheathe and point it at him with expert poise. The tree branches whip around me like lanterns in the wind.
"Die now." I point Tokijin at him and with a flick of my demonic aura, a torrent of blue jaki pours from the swords tip to the worthless excuse for an adversary. He doesn't even seem to be dodging my blow. And then I notice it, the blast hits him with calculated accuracy, but enters into him, doing no damage at all.
"I don't think you will be using that sword against me. It was made from my fellow incarnate, Goshinki. Have you not guessed what who am yet Sesshoumaru? My name is Ce, and I am the Chinese dragon youkai. My face shows no show of it, but my mind is reeling, is he in fact a dragon youkai? I need to end this now; I have no desire to call his bluff. In blurred instant, I am at his side, plunging Tokijin into his chest with a quick, lethal impale.
"I do not care what you are, spawn of Naraku." I pull back to withdrawal the sword from his body, but Tokijin will not come out. The youkai looks at me with a devilish glare and with one palm, emits an orange jaki wave that pushed me from him. I back flip and land with a perfect landing to see the rest of Tokijin absorb into his body.
"Oops, there goes your sword. You are weaponless now Sesshoumaru! He lunges at me with his wings out at full span and strikes the earth next to me with his haliberd, the ground splitting open in the process leaving a large fissure. I summon my acid whip and block his furious, yet quick and precise attacks with it. 'this is not to my advantage, a whip is a slow retrieval weapon, and I will need all my speed to defeat this enemy with no weapon.' I think to myself as the whip and the halberd clash, their jakis reacting with terrible force as he frees his haliberd from my whip. And before I can react, brings it back.
"Your whip is getting tiresome; I am going to end this here. With out a weapon the fight gets rather dull." I prepare to dodge his blow when my eyes movement from across the glade, and with a flash of fur and a slice of light, a katana is thrown to me. I catch it quickly in my talons to see Kouga the wolf prince high-jump kick Ce in the head, sending him back into a tree.
"Damn dragons. Never liked um." Kouga announced, and I regard him with a slight nod. I am armed now, but it is just a regular katana, I know it will not hold up against the powerful haliberd he wields. Just then, Ce gets up and points the glowing haliberd at me.
"I will kill you first, then the nuisance." A wave of orange jaki darts at me with tremendous speed, and I see Akira's eyes go impossibly wide. I move to dodge it, but as I land, another comes right at me, then another to Kouga. I cannot dodge this impossibly fast attack in time. I move my katana to block it, but the attack hits a barrier and deflects backwards, meanwhile Kouga is finished dodging his attack and stands in a defensive stance. How did that barrier get placed there?!
"A barrier? I did not know that dog-youkai can create them." Zhang Ce frowns and twirls his haliberd in an offensive pattern. I let loose my toxic flower poison in my left hand and it drips onto the ground viscously. Right as I am about to attack, I see a flurry of red jaki orbs come from behind me and hit Ce in the left arm and torso. Ryoko…she is here?! I thought I told her to guard Rin. Damn woman.
"There are obviously a lot of things you don't know." Ryoko comes and lands between me and Kouga. Kouga's eyes are wide with surprise, as are Akira's. Ce recovers from the attack and widens his eyes in realization. If Ce knows about Ryoko's existence, then Naraku does too. I grit my fangs together and suppress a small growl.
"You are the demon that Naraku was talking about. Interesting, I would have never guessed you to be female, and deadly attractive. It is such a shame I have to kill you." Ryoko tossed her hair in an immediate scoff. Her amber eyes crystallize at the youkai as she cracks a fanged grin.
"You won't destroy me, I know your secret you dumbass! You may be able to keep your real jaki level from Sesshoumaru and those guys over there, but to a youkai summoner your illusions are transparent. Why don't you just drop the damn charade already?" She sasses back with a hand on her hip. Ce looks irritated, but recovers quickly before he lost composure. His grip on his haliberd becomes tight as he disappears from sight. In an instant later, Ryoko disappears, only to reappear a few yards from where she was.
"Where did he go?" Kouga asked, not liking this situation one bit. Neither do I, could I have really miscalculated his strength? Never. Ryoko must be underestimating me, and overestimating this enemy. He does seem tricky, since he has cursed Akira, but—
"Watch it wolfboy!" I hear Ryoko yell as an orange bolt comes from nowhere and strikes Kouga in the back. His teal eyes go wide before turning back to normal, but instead of falling or bleeding, he stays put, in the exact position in which he was shot. Then it occurs to me, that attack paralyzes the enemy if hit. Then Ce reappears next to a tree, leaning against it casually. His languid orange eyes look to me with a slight amusement.
Ryoko teleports to kouga, checking out his vital signs, Kouga's eyes look lividly to Ce. I feel Ryoko's ki spike as Ce regards her with a coy smile. The jaki crackles in her hands, making Ce mock retreat with a knowing glance.
"Interesting little attack…not only does it paralyzes enemies… but it also can control their minds." Ryoko's mouth gapes as Akiras and Kouga's eyes instantly turn orange, and their feet move from their positions. "I will have fun participating with your own friends in destroy you." Akira's claws begin to flame, instead of toxin, his claws burn like fire, and if I know one thing about Akira, he can spurt volcanic type lava from his hands if he puts them parallel to each other. He charges at me with a fiery streak, like a firework, and I combat his attacks with the make-shift katana in my right hand, which is quickly melting.
I watch Ryoko get kicked by Kouga's quick feet before she throws some orbs at him making him loose his footing and fall. All the mean while, Ce is looking at Ryoko with an amusement in his eyes akin to lust. My youkai blood begins to heat up as I throw my melted sword aside and grab Akira by his arms and fling him into three trees. With the pause in battle I reevaluate the situation and a thought is brought into my mind.
"Ryoko. In order to deal with this youkai, call some of your own youkai to hold off Kouga and Akira." She looks at me with a blank stare for a second, and then a knowing grin marks over all her features. She puts her fingers to her mouth and let's loose a long, high pitched whistle that makes mine, Akiras and Kouga's ears ring. She sweatdrops and looks to the west, I feel two youkai close in on us, they seem to be strong enough to prove somewhat worthy adversaries to Akira and the wolf prince.
"I got you covered Frostbite. The two youkai are already here." She casts a look to the once carefree Ce "Meet the Lagoon Nymph, Oyami, and the Fire Tiger, Hao." I look as a water spout of enormous proportions comes from the air and crashes upon Akira with a mighty torrent, and the Tiger emerges from the dense foliage to tackle Kouga to the ground with a mighty leap. I turn to Ce, who looks positively nonplussed by the recent events, but his calm sneer has not left his conniving face.
"So, Ryoko, you can live up to your name. No matter. Perhaps it is time to show you why I am the leading Chinese dragon of the Zhang He river!" His eyes turn a blood curdling red as his body elongates into a snake like form with small feet and long talons, reminiscent of ryokussei. The dragon has long black whiskers, like catfish, and his entire body is a vivid emerald green. But what is most disconcerting is that this dragon does not have two eyes, but three. The third eye has no pupil, but is entirely orange, unlike his other two eyes which are slit with black pupils. A ridge of orange barbed scales run down his back and his entire body is flying with the aid of his enormous green wings.
Ryoko looks at me with a confused look on her face, for good reason, my eyes are turning red. It is time to show him why I am the Taiyoukai of the Western lands. I feel my body become too tight for my skin as my eyes become impossibly wide from the transformation.
"Dragon! I am not afraid of a dragon." My completely inhuman voice thunders through the forest and the youkai who have not yet already evacuated, besides my general and the three other combatants, pour from the forests in a mighty rush. My entire transformation is complete and my snowy white dog form stands tall above the trees, snarling and growling lowly at the Chinese Dragon. Yet, I see, just about eye level is Ryoko with her sword drawn and her jaki spiked high despite her size. She still seems determined to fight with me.
Stupid woman.
"What in the hell is going on over there?!" Inuyasha asks with his eyes wide and one ear flat on his head, the other perked up. I have never seen Inuyasha act like this, something must be really wrong, because he is looking towards the Western Lands. I gasp in realization, what if something is attacking Sesshoumaru and Ryoko? What if they are attacking each other? What if Kikyo is attacking Ryoko?!
"I sense three extremely heavy auras , and if I am not mistaken, Sesshoumaru is one of them." Sango announces to the group and we all fall with a tangible silence for a second or two. Inuyasha is the first to react, his honey eyes narrow in a spiteful sneer. I can't believe it, something is attacking Sesshoumaru?! That youkai must be extremely powerful to attempt such a feat. Sesshoumaru does lose to Inuyasha, but I sometimes wonder if Sesshoumaru actually tries to win. Ryoko on the other hand is immensely strong too, so I would not be surprised if those two kill that other youkai together.
"I don't care who is attacking my ass of a brother! He probably deserves it. And as for Ryoko, I would not care if she fell off the earth. It is probably just a border dispute or something like tha—" Inuyasha is cut off by the sky turning an ominous orange color and a rumble is heard from across the world. The earth shakes for a moment and Mihoshi clings onto Washu for support as Tenchi catches Ayeka as she falls from the trembling earth. I feel myself lose my footing as well when Inuyasha stabilizes me. I then notice that all the birds and other life in the forest has moved East, away from whatever is going on in Sesshoumaru's domain.
"Kagome, if Ryoko is in that battle we must assist her. I cannot allow her to get hurt or worse because of my decisions." Tenchi looks at me with a resolved look on his features, and I understand immediately. If Kouga were ever in trouble because I asked him nicely to leave, then I would do the same thing. I lift up my pack and head towards the village to where my bicycle is.
"Kagome where are you going?!" Inuyasha asks me with an angry look marring his features.
"Inuyasha, think about it, there is a full scale war going on in the West an—"I yell at him with my cinnamon eyes burning. Its odd that Inuyasha is turning down a fight…does he really want to continue the impression that he doesn't care about his brother?
"So?! Its non of our concern!" Inuyasha blurted out harshly, trying to seem indifferent that his brother could be in serious trouble. I was about to retort when I hear two loud, heart stopping roars one right after the other. One is more of a thunderous growl while the other was a higher lightening type shriek. Everyone in the clearing gasps except Inuyasha whose eyes grow wide and his nose sniffs the air. I don't know if I am hearing things, but I swear I could have heard him say 'Sesshoumaru's blood…' I take this instance to talk right back at him.
"Who just went to the west to look for your brother, let me give a hint, her name might just start with a K!" his eyes went wider if that was possible. I don't mean to be so hard on him, but gees does he have short term memory loss!
"K-k-k-ikyo!" Inuyasha stuttered out with a wide-eyed stare. I just looked at him with an almost melancholy glance. I know he loves Kikyo, and he does have a right to be worried, after all…those horrible sounds that came from the West shook me to the bone. As if two Gods were at war against each other. My cinnamon eyes perked up as he picked me up and put me on his sturdy back, while others followed suit. Washu was muttering something when Inuyasha first started to run
"You better keep up or you'll be left behind. Im not slowing up either." And with that, we bounded west, and if I am not so bold to say…he had an urgent look deep within his amber eyes.
AN: hey soooo sorry about the long wait, hehehee I haven't updated this story in months and I bet you thought I forgot about it. No, I got busy with a fic I already started and put this one on hold until I could finish it. I know this chapter is a little short, but I need to ease myself back into the mindset of this fic. I hope you like it
Ja ne!