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Sango and Inuyasha stared at the stranger with awe and fear in there eyes. There was no Japan? This guy must be pretty badly educated. Or…………was there really no Japan? "What exactly do ya mean no Japan!" Inuyasha yelled from his seat on the ground.
The man looked down at them and smiled broadly. "Well since you guys aren't yevonites, we'll help you out. My name is Nick. And this is some of my crew Ajehad and Peter." He motioned to himself and then to the men standing behind him. "You don't really need to worry about the rest of those guys. They're just for show." He said as he pointed towards the remaining 9 men.
"Uh…. ok?" Sango said confused. Inuyasha just sat there with his eyes hidden behind his hair. Sango could tell that he was not going to be much help in this matter.
"So, if we aren't in Japan, then where exactly are we?" She asked hoping she wouldn't be shot down or laughed at.
Neither one of those things happened though; she just received a stupefied stare from Nick.
"…………Are you…. serious?" Nick asked in shock.
"Completely." Sango replied firmly. "I mean just a couple of minutes ago, we were in the middle of a grassy field near a well in the forest of Inuyasha. That's in Japan. And the next thing we knew, we were here on this large metal thingy in the middle of some strange liquid substance."
"Well, since you seem like you have completely lost your minds, I guess I could try and help to the best of my ability." Nick said, although the utter surprise of his expression did not leave his face.
"Like I said earlier, there's no such thing as Japan. And I do know of some grassy fields but not in this 'forest of Inuyasha'. Also, the 'strange liquid substance' is called an ocean. Way over ½ of this planet is made up of it. It's salt water. And this so called 'large metal thingy' is a ship." Nick finished quickly and the other men clapped in admiration, for he said that all in one breath.
Sango was silent for a moment while she took all this in. Then she spoke up again. "Ok. Now, to answer my earlier question. Where are we?"
Nick's reply came quickly. "Well we're in the ocean just off of Besaid Island."
"What's Besaid? And what's an Island?" Sango asked with extreme curiosity.
Nick mumbled something unheard and then said, "Besaid is a town on the continent of Spira. I'm not going to go into geography right now, so you can learn all about Islands later. By the way what are your names?"
"I'm Sango, and my untalkative friend here is Inuyasha." She recited this as if it were thoroughly practiced.
"Ok, well, let's stop talking about all this. It's kind of weirding me out. Let's go inside and eat something." Nick moved towards Sango to help her up and once she was standing, He reached down for Inuyasha's hand as well but was swatted away no sooner than he had tried.
"Sorry about that, he can be touchy sometimes. We'll just have to leave him out here until he decides he wants to come inside." Sango smiled apologetically.
Inuyasha watched as Nick led Sango inside with the others following. He didn't really like this Nick guy but he was helping them so he had to be nice.
How is it that they never knew any of these things? This was the world they lived in. How could all of this be so foreign and unheard of?
Since when was there ever such a thing as salt water? Or was it always there and he just never knew about it. Were they really still in their world? Or was this just like Kagome's world? Was this the future? Inuyasha's head spun with new concepts and theories. When has his brain ever worked this hard?
Then another thought struck his head. Where was Kagome? Was she here with him, or in her world, or still back in his world? Would he ever see her again? Would ever have the pain of being sat 5 million times for something that he was oblivious to again? He needed to find her. He was told to protect her and he was going to do just that.
Sango looked around the room memorizing each of the men's faces as she learned their names.
Each of them was wearing the same yellow overalls that Nick was wearing but each had made there own unique adjustment. All of the shirts that were worn under the overalls were different colors and each of them were worn a different way. Some were tucked in while others hung loosely over the outsides of the yellow overalls. Each of the men also had a pair of goggles hanging around their necks. And while Nick had some sort of handkerchief sticking out of his pocket, the other guys had chains or gloves or something of that matter dangling from their front pockets. Also, every one of them had a belt around their middle that was full of impressive looking tools and weapons.
She looked up to speak to Nick. "Nick, all of you are dressed quite strangely. What are all of those tools on your belts?"
"Well, as for being dressed strangely, the same could be said about you. I've never seen any clothes like that before." Nick said as he motioned to Sango's black jumpsuit with pink armor and golden colored pieces of cloth stretching over her collarbone and waist. "And we can show you some of these tools. They are machina. And since you probably don't know what that is, it's Al Behd machinery."
"Ok, I would love to see some of those weapons as well. I'm a fighter myself." Said Sango as she eyed the collection of machina weapons.
But before the Al Behd men could even reach for their belts, a woman came in. She was skinny and semi-tall, with a build much like that of Sango's.
She had dark brown hair that flowed down to the middle of her back. Her chocolate eyes were slited into a semi-glare that was directed towards Sango. And her although her clothes were extremely different from that of the other Al Behds, they were still different from anything that Sango had ever seen. She had on an orange, sleeveless shirt with buckles strapped over the top part and see had on green shorts with frilly white stuff on the bottom. She also had a belt with an impressive array of tools and she had a pair of goggles hanging from around her neck.
But there was something else about her. Something Sango couldn't place. She was extremely familiar.
"………Sango? Is that you?" asked the brown-haired girl from the other side of the room.
"Yes, my name is Sango, but who are you?" said Sango.
"It's me. Rin"
Sango's mouth dropped open as her eyes widened in surprise. Was this really the same little girl who had accompanied Sesshomaru back in her world?
"Do you mean to tell me, that you are Rin, Sesshomaru's child companion?" Sango asked, the shock and surprise still evident on her face.
"The very same." Rin replied glumly.
"What is wrong?" Sango asked, her voice laced with kindness and concern. She was still puzzled as to how Rin was so much older than the last time she had seen her, which was only a few days ago.
"Well, you see. It is very odd seeing you here of all places after not seeing you all for ten years." Rin explained this still sounding glum. "All of you, including Sesshomaru, were sucked into that strange power well. I was not there because Sesshomaru had made me stay where I was like he always did. After about twelve hours of waiting for him to come back, I got worried and went to search for him. When I followed the direction I had seen him go, I found that it had been quite a walk. I was at least 20 miles from his final destination. I knew this because he had taught me some tracking skills. But, after reaching the place where he had stopped, I found nothing but an empty clearing in a forest and a well. But there was something very strange about the place. There was a very strong spiritual energy there. I could tell that something extreme had happened there. I decided to stay nearby so that I would be able to check on the area every now and then."
She paused for a minute and then continued.
"So, I moved to the small village just outside of the forest. There I met an old priestess named Kaede. She told me about there being a strange light erupting from the forest the day before. And she also told me about your disappearance. I was pretty sure that Sesshomaru had disappeared with the rest of you so I resolved to stay near by. About ten years later, the same light erupted from the well and Kaede and I ran towards it. The next thing we knew, we were being sucked into it and somehow transported to another dimension or something. When we got here, we learned some of the things about this world and we found out that we were not actually in a different world, but in the future. 1,000 years in the future to be exact." Rin finally finished her reenactment, and was blue in the face from all of the talking.
Sango stared at her in disbelief. "1,000 years in the future?" Sango repeated with astonishment.
Rin nodded in confirmation.
Sango puzzled over this for quite some time, and the Al Behd men stared at them in slight confusion deciding that silence was the best policy in this situation.
Just then Inuyasha burst through the door. "We're a thousand years in the future?" He asked loudly with a bit of aggravation.
Rin sat motionless looking dumbstruck. "He's here to?" Rin asked in amazement. "INUYASHA! IT REALLY IS YOU!" She leapt towards him. If you're here then Sesshomaru must be here to.
Inuyasha mumbled under his breath a small 'I hope not' then turned towards Sango. "If Rin was transported here and so were we, then Kagome and Miroku and Shippou must be here to." Inuyasha said this more to himself then to anyone else.
"And Sesshomaru!" Rin chirped in. "He should be here to!"
"Whoa, Rin, you got old!" Inuyasha exclaimed with more surprise than Sango had shown. Rin let out a light laugh and then grinned.
"Well, we'll talk more about this later. Right now, we have to get moving before we run into Sin." Said Rin.
"Sin?" Inuyasha and Sango asked together.
"I'll explain more later, but for now, I'm just gonna say that Sin is not something you want to get mixed up with." Rin said in a more serious tone. Then she began barking orders in the same strange language they had heard from the men earlier. "Kad ib dub! Oui, Helg, oui'na uh fydlr! Ymm sah uh talg! Mad'c kad drec drehk sujehk!" She shouted.
With that, all of the men ran out of the same door they had entered through earlier and left Inuyasha and Sango alone with Rin. "Well, you guys, I probably won't get to talk to you again until we stop moving. You can either come up on deck or just stay down here and make yourselves comfortable." Said Rin with a warm smile and she turned to leave.
A second later, the ship gave a huge lurch knocking Sango off her feet and Inuyasha swayed. And then, they were moving. They had never felt anything like this. It was going to be interesting.
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AL BEHD TRANSLATIONS +
Kad ib dub! – Get up top!
Oui, Helg, oui'na uh fydlr! – You, Nick, you're on watch!
Ymm sah uh talg! – All men on deck!
Mad'c kad drec drehk sujehk! – Let's get this thing moving!
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