Disclaimer: Unsolved Mysteries and Mortal Combat are not my creations.
Define Normal
Chapter Six - Mortal Combat
...Da nanana na nanana...
Jessica could hear the men behind her, every crunch of their heels, every breath (which was louder than normal because of their running). Then her mind started wandering to all those episodes of Unsolved Mysteries. Diamond could sense what she was thinking. "Why are you so worried about them being men? They want to eat us!" "There are EIGHT MEN chasing us!" "Yes?" "I'M FEMALE!" "Yeah..oh. I forgot, you're younger than me. Males of your age think about that particular thing a lot more than an oldie like me does." With renewed terror, Jessica began yelling even louder. "HELP! HELP! CAN ANYONE HERE ME! HELP!" Her own yelling was hurting her ears, but right now, she didn't really care about her ears.
---Just outside Inuyasha's Forest---
Inuyasha suddenly got very serious. "What is it?" asked Kagome. "I can hear someone yelling," he replied, starring hard into the air in front of him, "I think it's a girl." Miroku perked up, "A girl you say? In trouble? In a terrible state of unstablity and fear?" Sango bashed him on the head with her Hiraikotsu ((for those of you that don't know, that's the name of her giant boomerang)). "Is sex all you think about?" she demanded. "What? No!" he said indignantly, "I think about food when I'm hungry, too." Kagome and Sango gave eachother the "OMG h3 1$ a 10Z3r" look. A little ways off, AJ was watching as Wednesday powered down, and then fired back up again, over and over and over and over. "Holy crap, Wednesday, will you STOP IT!" "No," he replied, "this is cool!" Then he suddenly fired up and stayed that way, growling. Kilala was growling now, too, and looking in the direction of Inuyasha's Forest. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked in the same direction. After a bit, Kagome heard something. "It is a girl, and she's calling for help!" she said, grabbing Inuyasha's hand, "come on, we gotta go help!" Inuyasha didn't resist her grip, but detested her actions. "What if it's another one of them," he said, looking at AJ, "just like little miss paw-print on my forehead over there!" AJ looked at him, surprised. "There's a pawprint on my forehead!" "Yeah," said Shippou, "didn't you know? Your two-tail has a star shaped pink thing on his forehead, and you have a pink pawprint on yours!" AJ looked at W-day accusingly, "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME!" "You never asked." After a bit, he said "You know, that yelling sounds sort like Jessica." "JESSICA! She's here? Okay, you guys, we have to go help her!" "Why," growled Inuyasha. "Because she's my friend! She won't hurt you or anything, gosh!" Kagome cleared her throat and said "I do think there is more Jewel Shard over there. It's very faint, just like on um.." "AJ," complete AJ. "Jewel Shard," said Inuyasha, "What are we waiting around here for? Lets go!" He got a tighter grip on to Kagome's wrist and dragged her behind him as he ran. Miroku looked tentively at Sango. "Would you like to pair up," he said, smooth holding her hand. She yanked it out of his grip. "No, I do NOT need your help running, PRIEST." She ran up to Kilala and lept on her back, Miroku followed suit. Then Kilala lept into the air, and flew after the fast running Inuyasha and Kagome. AJ looked at Wednesday. "Uh..do you think I'll fall off you?" she asked. "You can hold on to the skin of my neck, it's where my momma used to hold me when I was a kitten before you came along, so it shouldn't hurt me." That settled, AJ got onto Wednesday's back (rather clumsily, she almost fell off the other side). He took a running start, then jumped into the air. For a second he wavered, but then he was under controll. He soon caught up with Kilala, trying his best to look stunning.
It didn't take very long to find Jessica. Just as Inuyasha and Kagome entered the forest, Jessica ran out of, totally slamming into Inuyasha. Taken totally by surprise, Inuyasha fell down, taking Kagome with him. All three people landed dogpile style, Inuyasha on the bottom ((he he, i made a funny)). They were very soon surrounded by the eighter wolf-demon hunters.
"Look everyone," said the leader of the pack, "It's Inuyasha and his .. human friends." "Looks like they're more than just "friends" to me!" said one of them. That was followed by cruel laughter. Inuyasha pushed Jessica and Kagome off him and lept up, you could practically see the vein throbbing in his forehead. "Kagome's not my -gulp- lover! And I don't even know who the hell that one is!" he said, pointing to Jessica (who was being helped up my Kagome). The leader laughed again and looked at Kagome. "Kouga sends his best wishes, bitch." ((they are wolves, and females wolves are called bitches, so he's not directly trying to insult her here)). Inuyasha's vision went from embarrased to angry. "Don't call her that!" he yelled.
Jessica shook her head to clear it, and looked up into Kagome's face. "Uh..thank you," she said. She then looked around at the party of people now surrounding here that were NOT trying to eat her. "Are you Jessica," said Kagome, disturbing Jessica's thoughts before she could start them. "Uh, yes. Who are you?" Kagome led her farther away from the fight, and stood behind Kilala. Diamond followed, he didn't know what else to do, and these people didn't seem like bad guys. "This is Kilala," said Kagome, "Over there is Kilala's best friend, Songo. And that's Miroku, don't let him get too close to you, his hands wander. That one right there is Inuyasha, he's got a temper but he's a nice guy once you get to know him. And this one is Shippou." As she was saying this, Wednesday landed, and AJ got off (or fell off). She walked up in front of Wednesday to congratulate him for flying so well on his first flight. "Those two are new," said Kagome, "the two-tail is Wednesday, and the girl is-" "AJ!" yelled Jessica, suddenly feeling much better. Kilala ran over to assist Songo when the inevitable fight broke out. Kagome stayed behind with Jessica, AJ, and Wednesday. Jessica started running to AJ, but stopped a few feet away from Wednesday, looking confused. Diamond stood by Jessica's side, ready to fight or run. "Don't worry," said AJ, "apparently, he turned into a.. what was it? Oh yeah, a two-tail when we came to..wherever we are." Jessica looked Wednesday up and down, seeing his doubled-up tail. "Wow, they sure are imaginative with their names around here. ... Exactly where is here, anyway?" "Japan," said Kagome. AJ and Jessica looked at her in disbelief. "We're in Japan!" "Yeah, couldn't you tell by our outfits?" said Kagome. "They were kinda wierd, especially those eight guys over there." said AJ, pointing to the 'heated discussion' between Inuyasha and the wolf-demons. That jostled Diamond's memory. "JESSICA!" "Wah- what?" "What about Dianna?" Jessica startled and yelled "They got Dianna! This one.. I think he said Kouga, he grabbed Dianna and one of his friends got Romeo!" It was Kagome's turn to yell. "KOUGA got Dianna! We have to get her back! He'll eat her!" "I know," yelled an exasperated Jessica, "but I don't know where he went with her!" Kagome looked over at Inuyasha and got a serious look on her face. "I do." she said.
"THAT'S IT!" yelled Inuyasha, "I'm sick of your talk! IRON REAVER, SOUL STEALER!" With that, Inuyasha lept into the air and used his claws as weapons. This knocked out two of the wolf demons, once down they were too dizzy to get back up. The six remaining wolf demons were about ready to tackle Inuyasha, but Miroku ran in front of Inuyasha and lifted his beaded wrist. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," he said with a smirk. The demons stopped dead, and took a step back. "We're not afraid of you!" yelled one of them. Miroku started to loosen the beads, and the one that had spoke turned tail and fled. The leader looked back in disgust. "Damn-it. WE'LL BE BACK!" he yelled, and with that, they picked up the two fallen demons and ran off back into the forest. "Yeah," yelled Inuyasha, "run back to your little mountain!"
With the danger gone, Kagome ran up to Inuyasha. "Kouga has Dianna!" she said. "Who's Dianna?" asked everyone. Shippou, riding on Jessica's shoulder, said "Jessica and AJ's friend!" The group stopped and looked at Jessica as if she had never even been there. Sango walked over to them, Kilala followed. She patted Kilala on the shoulder and said "We can't let Kouga get this Dianna friend of yours, then." "I see two giant cats, but I smell another dog," said Diamond. Jessica pointed to Inuyasha, "By his outfit and ears, I'm guessing you smell that one." The group looked startled at Jessica. "Uh..he speaks to me through my mind," she said. "Yeah," said AJ, "Wednesday does that to me, too." "Okay," said Sango, "I've never heard of that happening before, but this will have to wait. Okay, guys, we need to bee-line it to Kouga's mountain!" After some preparations were made, they set off to Kouga's mountain.
