Author Notes:
Baka-chan: UGH!
QJP: Ah, yeah. Baka-chan is currently unable to talk so the commentary will be taken over by BC! Take it away, B…hey, take that candy out of your mouth and talk! Wow, that's something I thought I'd never say!
BC: Do what?
QJP: Do the commentary!
BC: What? Don't use big words! Big words confuse me! Waah!
QJP: PLP will you take over!
/PLP turns around to look at QJP with a big sucker in her mouth/
PLP: Hmm?
/QJP starts to get annoyed and kicks Baka-chan, in the place where no guy should be kicked/
Baka-chan: HELLO!
Miroku: Ouch! That just isn't right/Miroku goes cross eyed/ I feel your pain.
QJP: I feel better! What was that monk? Did I hear 'Do it to me too?'
Miroku: Nope, definitely not, you didn't hear me 'yes'.
/QJP kicks Miroku in the same spot as Baka-chan/
/Miroku drops to his knees and really goes cross eyed/
QJP: You said 'yes'.
/QJP glows with happiness/
/Baka-chan starts whispering softly/
Baka-chan: On…with…the…story…! PLEASE!
Chapter 6: The Temple of Eternal Night
Watching him march off into the forest with his army, Shippo walked over to the outer wall and sat down. Sighing in dispair, he leaned back against the wall and waited for the sun to rise. "Twelve hours and counting." Chuckling to himself, he closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Marching side by side all day through the forest, Inuyasha stopped and sat down at the base of the hill in front of them. "Okay, that's it! Everyone halt and take a break!"
"What are you doing? We need to keep moving!"
"Look at them, Kagome. If we don't rest then we're going to be slaughtered if we run into the vampires."
Staring around at the army as they all slowly sat down to rest, she knew he was right. Pricking her finger as she grabbed the branch of a nearby bush, Kagome stared at her finger as blood began to well up in the cut. Ripping off the sleeve of her shirt, Kagome wound it around her finger and tightened it to stop the blood.
Miroku stopped abruptly and signaled his army to stop. Smelling blood on the breeze, he started sniffing in different directions to find the source. "Boys, feed to your hearts content. Charge!"
Hearing his voice, Sango jumped to feet and ran up the hill. Looking across the clearing as Miroku and his army poured out of the forest towards her, she instantly knew that the odds were against them. "They're here! Everyone get ready to fight! Archers, get ready to fire!"
Running in front of her and forming three rows of fifty, the archers loaded their bows and ready themselves to fire. "First line...fire! Second line...fire! Third line...fire!"
Arrows whistling through the air as they flew across the clearing, she smiled to herself as she watched the arrows descend upon the charging vampires like a hailstorm.
Seeing the arrows as if in slow motion, Miroku dodged left and right as he ran across the clearing, easily avoiding every arrow. Finally clear of the arrows, he looked back over his shoulder at his army, ripping arrows out of their bodies and trampling over the ashes of the fallen, as they continued charging forward across the clearing. "Keep fighting! I'm going to the temple!"
Turning right, Miroku sped off toward the entrance of the temple.
Shocked by his increase in speed and agility, Sango watched as he dodged the arrows and turned off toward the temple. "Kagome take over. I'm going after Miroku."
Matching his speed, Sango ran after Miroku, praying that she got to the temple before he did.
Running through the temple doorway, Miroku continued to run down a long hallway until he slid to a stop inches from the edge of a hundred foot drop into a huge shrine with gigantic statues of Sol and Luna facing each other on opposite sides of the room. Looking at the demolished stairs that wrapped around the walls of the shrine all the way to the bottom, Miroku cursed under his breath. "This is just great! Now how am I supposed to get down there!"
"Like this, asshole!"
Without slowing down, Sango ran out of the hallway and slammed into Miroku's back, catapulting them off the edge. Spinning around in midair as they descended through the air towards the stone floor, he backhanded her across the face with his closed fist. Shaking off the dizziness from his punch, Sango drew back and slammed her fist into his face. Spitting his shattered fang out of his mouth, Miroku cursed at her as he slammed into the shrine's stone floor. Rolling off of him, Sango tried to get to her feet. Collapsing back on to the ground, Sango stroked her broken leg, hissing when the pain hit her. Suddenly her armor started glowing and mended her leg.
"Damn, wench, that hurt!"
Spitting up blood as he flipped over on to his stomach, Miroku slowly got to his feet and started walking towards her with blood flowing freely from his mouth and forhead. Concentrating on his choice of weapons, he clenched his fists and turned them into a shield and double-edged battleax.
"Let's do this, beautiful! Oh, and don't hold back because I can promise you this! I'm not going to stop until I remove that pretty face from your body!"
Rolling out of the way as he slammed his ax into the stone, Sango kicked out at him, sending him sliding on the balls of his feet across the floor. Jumping to her feet, she grabbed her boomerang and sent it flying at him. Erupting into flames as picked up speed, her boomerang shot across the room at Miroku. Steading himself, he jumped out of the way of the weapon. Embedding itself in the statue of Luna, the statue began to glow, sending a translucent blue light about the room, as it pulled the sol weapon into itself. Like the Luna statue, the statue of Sol began to glow, sending a translucent green light across the room. Both lights colliding together in the middle of the shrine, the room began to buck as the floor began to crack. Staring at the crack as long black and white crystal pillars shot up around the room, Miroku watched as a large crystal coffin rose from its dark depths. Without hesitating, Sango ran toward the coffin and slammed into it. Glowing with an intense light as soon as she was absorbed into the coffin, a beam of light shot out and struck Miroku. Turning to ash as the lunar armor was ripped from his body and absorbed by the light, Miroku screamed in pain as body turned completely to ash and collapsed in a pile on the ground.
Staring around herself as the coffin's glow increased, Sango felt herself being torn apart as she disintegrated. Exploding with a massive blast, the coffin blew to pieces releasing a dense fog that filled the temple in seconds. Billowing out of the temple's entrance, the fog creeped its way around the mountain and spread out across the forest.
Loading their bows and readying themselves to release another wave of arrows, the archers waited for the command to fire again. Kagome and Inuyasha watched as a peculiar fog moved rapidly across the clearing, enveloping the vampires as they continued to charge forward. "Archers! Fire at will when they clear the fog!"
Staring down the shafts of their arrows as the fog disappeared, the archers fired upon the vampires relentlessly.
Dropping dead, one after another, the vampires fell, their corpses littering the ground as the archers' arrows ripped through the bodies and drenching the soil with their blood. Minutes later, the archers lowered their bows and Kagome and Inuyasha walked through the corpse-filled battlefield. "Why aren't they turning to ash?"
Laughing softly at the irony, Inuyasha looked up into Kagome's worried face. "The temple doesn't allow vampires to walk in the sunlight. It turns them human again. Hahahah!"
After hours of waiting, Shippo slowly got to his feet and watched, with a small smile on his face, as the sun slowly rose up over the the treetops and bathed him in sunlight. Smiling to himself as he burst into flames, Shippo slowly laughed as he burned to ash and blew away on the breeze.
Author notes:
Sango: I can't believe you killed me!
Baka-chan in a full body cast: Mmm...hmph..hmph!
Sango: What did you say?
Miroku: Leave him alone, Sango! He's already high on painkillers. Besides you're not dead because there is another chapter and you're in it.
Sango: Good point!
Shippo: I get burnt up like a marshmallow! WAAAAH!
/Shippo kicks Baka-chan in the crouch/
Shippo: Owwy! That hurt!
Baka-chan: Mmmmmpppphhhh!
Translation/ Oh my god, the pain! Oh, Mr. Vicadin/
