Author notes:
/Shippo is on his back struggling to get Baka-chan's foot off his chest/
Baka-chan: I told you that you could never beat me!
Shippo: Shut up, you je…
/Inuyasha jumps out of nowhere, right above Shippo and Baka-chan/
Inuyasha: I told you to stop following me and go home, wench!
Kagome: What did you call me?
/Inuyasha looks down at how high up he is and then looks back at Kagome's enraged face/
Inuyasha: Kagome, wait a m…
Kagome: SIT!
/Shippo looks fearfully upward and Baka-chan looks up too/
/Shippo uses foxfire on Baka-chan's foot/
Baka-chan: Ouch!
/Baka-chan lifts up his burnt foot and Shippo runs away/
/Baka-chan looks up at Inuyasha's falling body and then looks at QJP, PLP, and Sango/
Baka-chan: This…is going…to hurt!
/Inuyasha lands right on top of Baka-chan and knocks him into a three foot deep, Inuyasha-shaped, hole/
/Inuyasha climbs out of the hole as Kagome walks over to QJP and the rest of the group/
Kagome: Inuyasha, you're supposed to be unconscious and severely hurt from that fall!
Inuyasha: I know that but surprising something cushioned my fall!
/Inuyasha looks over his shoulder at the inside of the hole/
Inuyasha: Kagome! You're in big trouble!
Kagome: Why!
Inuyasha: You sent me crashing down on QJP's boyfriend!
/Kagome runs over and looks down the hole at the unconscious pervert/
Kagome: Sorry about that QJP!
QJP: No problem. Baka-chan's head is thick enough where there won't be any permanent damage. I think.
Kagome: Well, that's good to kn…hmph!
/Miroku gropes Kagome/
/Inuyasha grabs Miroku by the throat and starts to choke him/
Inuyasha: I told you that you could grope Sango but you had to leave Kagome alone!
Kagome: WHAT!
Inuyasha: Nothing! Ahh…you're going to say 'sit', aren't you?
Kagome nods her head, menacingly/
Kagome: SIT!
/Inuyasha falls down the hole again, still choking Miroku, and they land on Baka-chan/
Baka-chan: OWWWWYYYYYYYYY!
/Inuyasha and Miroku go soaring out of the hole, each with two black eyes/
/Baka-chan climbs partially out of the hole and hangs on the edge/
Baka-chan: Did you really have to have them land there, Kagome? Not even QJP is allowed to hit me there!
/Baka-chan fully climbs out of the hole and curls up into a ball on the ground/
QJP: Did it really hurt that badly?
/Baka-chan glares at QJP/
Baka-chan: Of course 'it really hurt that badly'! It would really hurt any male if he got hit there! Ouch! When did my fanfic turn into pummel Baka-chan day?
PLP: It didn't! Only your author notes did!
Baka-chan: Alright! When did my author notes turn into pummel Baka-chan day?
PLP: When you started writing them!
Baka-chan: WHA….
QJP: And it will continue until you stop picking on Shippo!
Baka-chan: Well that will never happen and I'm putting my foot down on the subject!
QJP: Sango, get your hirakotsu ready! We're going pervert hunting!
Miroku: At least I have nothing to worry about!
Sango: Think again! You're a pervert too!
/Baka-chan and Miroku look at each other/
QJP: Pick a pervert and get ready to attack!
Baka-chan: Exit stage le…
Miroku: Stop talking and RUN!
/Miroku grabs the back of Baka-chan's shirt and drags him as he runs away/
Baka-chan: Ach!
QJP: CHARGE!
Sango: Hold on, QJP! Enjoy Baka-chan's fourth chapter of The Nightly Bloodline!
QJP: NOW!
Sango: Now.
QJP: Finally, CHARGE!
Chapter Four: The Sol Temple Challenge
Sol Temple
Watching as they got up and headed for the portal, Miroku and Shippo quickly got up and walked over to them. "Well its about time! We've been down here for hours!"
Grabbing the front of their armors, Kagura and Naraku stretched out their free hands and placed them on to the portal's door. Suddenly, they were all pulled through the door as if it was made of water, and in seconds they were all stumbling to regain their balance as they were thrown from the end of the portal. Without looking around, Miroku and Shippo followed them to the open doorway to an ancient looking stone building. "Well, you wanted the Lunar armor so get in there and take the temple challenge!"
"Wait a minute, I never heard of any challenges at the temple!"
Pushing Miroku over the threshold, Shippo chuckled as he waved goodbye. "Well there is so don't come out until you get that armor and remember, have fun."
Suddenly the entrance to the temple fused shut, turning into a solid wall behind him. Whirling around, Miroku pounded on the wall with all of his strength until his fist began to throb in pain. "Shippo, you bastard!" Backing away from the wall, Miroku rubbed his hand as he began to examine the room for a way out. "Holy shit that hurt! What the hell is that wall made of?"
As his anger subsided, Miroku walked around and realized that the room was completely sealed, not even a crack in the wall or window. "Damn it! I'm trapped."
Without warning the tile he was standing on dropped a few inches, knocking Miroku slightly off balance. "What the…!"
Suddenly, the tile shattered like glass beneath his feet dropping him hundreds of feet down, where he landed heavily on to the soil-covered floor of an underground cavern. "Ugh…wow…what is the deal with this place," Miroku moaned, as his eyes teared up from the pain.
As Miroku pulled himself up into a sitting position, he looked about the cavern and noticed that he was at the edge of a vast lake with a small island in the center. Staring harder across the darkened water, he noticed a soft glow coming from the island. "That has to be the armor."
With hope starting to grow in his undead heart, Miroku got to his feet and ran full speed toward the lakeshore but quickly skidded to a halt, mere inches, before touching the water. "Wait a minute, Naraku said that there were challenges and this has been to easy. Unless…IT'S A TRAP…!"
Whipping out of the water with a roaring crash, a huge tentacle shot out of the lake and wrapped itself around his waist. Looking down at the tentacle, as if it was really just something else that he needed to go wrong for him today, Miroku felt it tighten around his undead body as it ripped him off the ground and flung him over the lake's crystalline surface.
Loosening its grip as it unwrapped itself from from his waist, the tentacle threw him up into the air with such force, Miroku didn't even have a chance to ready himself as the cavern ceiling came rushing at him out of the darkness. "Ah, sh…!" Slamming into the cavern ceiling, Miroku became embedded into the rocky ceiling. With an anguished grunt, he slipped loose and fell in a tangle of his own limbs into the vastness of the cursed creature's lake.
Staring up into the sky, Naraku realized that he had misjudged how long it would have taken to get through the portal. "We can't wait any longer for him, as it is we're going to be hard pressed to get back to the castle on time."
"We can't just leave him in there," Kagura said crossly, as she pointed to the sealed entrance of the temple, "he might still be alive in there."
"Kagura! You know perfectly well WHY this is called the Sol temple," Naraku growled, "the only ways that the entrance will open, after a vampire has crossed the threshold, is when sunlight hits the temple, which then the whole thing will be flooded with sunlight, or that vampire claims the armor and highly unlikely he will so let's go!"
"Then, how did you get out alive," Shippo asked, puzzled.
"Well, he ran out of the temple wrapped in his cloak and dived into an abandoned manure cart full of horse manure for protection and stayed there all day until the sun went down," Kagura said, as she glared at her humiliated husband.
"Is that true," Shippo said in shock, as he turned to look at Naraku.
Blushing very badly, which is very impressive for any vampire, Naraku glared menacingly at Kagura. "No, it is not true, it was cow manure. Can we go already?"
"I guess we have no choice," Kagura said in a depressed tone, as they turned away from the temple entrance.
Regaining his senses, Miroku whirled around in every direction looking for his demonic nemesis. Panicking from his nemesis' lack of appearance, Miroku quickly transformed his hands into talons and began to swim toward the surface of the lake. Suddenly the creature, in all its disgusting glory, came charging head on, tentacles flailing behind it, straight into Miroku, who sunk his claws into the demon's rubbery flesh to prevent it from swallowing him whole. "You want me, well, you got me," Miroku thought to himself.
Pulling his legs free of the demon's mouth before it bit into him, Miroku started to gouge out bulging red eyes. With a few quick, deep slashes, Miroku managed to rip out the demon's left eye and proceeded to try and rip out its brains when. "What the…I've heard of being brainless but this is ridiculous," Miroku thought, as he reached inside the demon's skull for its brain and discovered that the demon didn't have one, "this is just great! Now my only chance is to get that armor!"
With great speed and strength, he gouged out the demon's last eye and then directed it towards the surface of the lake. As soon as the creature broke the surface with Miroku still riding on its face, he lead it across the surface toward the little island and as soon as they were close enough, he jumped onto the island and proceeded to walk towards the armor. With a steady hand, Miroku reached out to touch the armor but as he touched it the armor shattered into a pile dust on the ground.
"What is going on here, is this someone's idea of a sick joke?"
Turning away from the pile of ancient dust, Miroku walked toward the lake and stared into the water. "All this for noth…what the?" Staring down at the demon's eyes as they floated on the surface of the lake, he realized that there was something inside the transparent red eyes. Bending down, Miroku scooped up the first eye and ripped it in half, to discover a black gauntlet buried in one side. Dropping the empty half of the eye back into the water, Miroku quickly removed the gauntlet from the other half of the eye and dropped it back in to the water. Staring at the gauntlet, an odd feeling ran up his arms. Bending down, Miroku grabbed the second eye and proceeded to extract the other gauntlet. "I wonder."
Curiosity taking over, Miroku slipped the gauntlets on. With a dull glow, the gauntlets melted and spread over his whole body and ended at his neck. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! IT BURNS," Miroku screamed hysterically, as the light faded leaving glowing red armor all over his body, which then faded to a dead-of-night black.
Collapsing to his knees, Miroku looked at the armor and screamed in triumph. "What a rush," Miroku panted, as the pain receded, "at last the Lunar armor is mine!"
Smiling maniacally, Miroku pumped his fists in the air in triumph. With a roar of rage the demon jumped out of the lake and charged at Miroku. Looking up, Miroku sneered at the demon as he balled his hand into a fist. "You just don't know when to die," Miroku screamed.
Slamming his fist into the demon's jaw, Miroku managed to trigger a sword to extend from the gauntlet in a beam of magnificent light, slicing the demon's body clean in half. "Well it was for defense, I guess," Miroku pondered, as he watched the sword turn back into a beam of light and sink into the gauntlet.
Looking up at the ceiling of the cavern, he realized that the floor had also sealed itself after he fell through. "Now to get out of here."
With a great burst of strength and speed, Miroku jumped so far into the air that he burst through the cavern roof into the entrance hall of the temple. Standing in front of the sealed entrance, an enraged look on his face, he smashed his fist into the sealed entrance and blew away the whole wall, causing the temple to start crumbling around him. "Crap! I've never been that strong. Jeez, they didn't even wait for me! Oh well, I'll just have to catch up."
Dashing into the forest, Miroku was nothing but a blur as he ran for the castle.
Author notes:
Baka-chan: Yes! I am still running from QJP and Sango!
Miroku: Don't slow down! They're right on our butts!
Baka-chan: Hey Miroku! Don't you think QJP looks hot when she's angry?
Miroku: I don't know! I've been to busy looking over my shoulder at Sango's butt!
Baka-chan: DUCK!
Baka-chan and Miroku duck as they're running away and Sango's hirakotsu flies over their heads, missing them by inches/
Miroku: Take it easy, Sango!
QJP: That was me and I was aiming for Baka-chan!
Baka-chan: Hey! That's not funny!
/Hirakotsu does a U-turn and clobbers Baka-chan in the forehead/
Baka-chan: Owy.
