When Kagome fell, I couldn't have been angrier. I swear to god. I was so pissed off. Whoever had made that tape was going to die a painful death, and it would be me who made it so.

Well, maybe not. But still, I was fucking mad.

"Kagome!" I yelled, kneeling down beside her. She really was out like a light. "Kagome! Answer me! Say something, dammit/Kagome!" But she wouldn't answer me.

"What the…?" Auron was the first to notice. He kneeled down, too, and shook Kagome a little. "Kagome!"

Then Tsumi and Miyako and Steph and all of the others kinda gathered around poor Kagome. I felt so bad for her… After all, she didn't know what the hell else had been recorded on other tapes.

Axel pushed Miyako aside, receiving a swift smack upside the head from her, and then held his hands out over Kagome. I knew what he was doing. Soujirou, Auron, and Ryou did it, too. Axel's hands started to glow red, Soujirou's blue, Auron's yellow, and Ryou's green. All the glowing combined and turned gray, and then it faded to white – they were using curative magic. They all had to work together to do it, but they revived Kagome. Her eyes kinda blinked open and she sat up.

"Kagome!" Steph cried. She hugged her. It made me mad, but I don't really know why.

"Oh, thank god…" Tsumi breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

All of a sudden, Kagome's eyes got really wide, and she looked scared. "Podge…?" she whispered. We all turned to see what she was looking at – she was staring out the window – but I couldn't see anything. Miyako and Axel got really angry, though.

"What the hell is he doing here!" Miyako shouted, standing up. Axel got up, too.

"Damn it all…" Axel hissed.

"What the fuck are you talking about?" I asked. I stood up and looked out the window again. I started to feel something coming closer – something strong. I looked back at Kagome and saw that the others had all formed a wall around her, except for Steph… She seemed a little out of it.

Then there was a /huge/ explosion. So I figured it out, finally, that Podge was attacking. I also figured that everyone would shield Kagome, so I picked up my staff, which had been propped up against the couch, and faced the source of the boom. There was that damn red-eyed brat, sitting on this floating throne and smirking like a bastard. I gave him the angriest glare I'd ever given anyone other than Naraku.

"Why are you all so angry?" he asked. "What did /I/ do?" Then he held out his cane and screamed, "Aeroga Flame!" I remembered that one. So I jumped up and then off the couch to the right, over Kagome and the others and avoiding the fiery tornado.

"Podge, what are you doing here?" Axel yelled. "Leave us alone!"

Podge smirked again. "Oh, come now, Axel…" he said, aiming his cane at Axel. "You should have figured that much out by now, don't you think?" Then his pupils got very small, and his eyes wide. "Living Water! Arise! Attack those who protect Hexias!" I looked around, knowing he was summoning something, and saw the same creatures from the concert. The stupid water things started to attack us.

"Those were yours!" I yelled. He only laughed. The water things were giving Miyako and Axel hell, like before. Both of them were weak against water. Soujirou was immune to their attacks, of course. Me and Auron and Ryou – and Steph, I think – were beating the shit out of the water-things until Podge attacked again.

"Shockwave!" he yelled, followed shortly by: "Emepheron!" I saw a faint yellow light around the orb on his cane before I felt the electricity. His spells created two walls of lightning that were closing on us from both above on below. I knew this would take Ryou out in no time, especially with the water things to exaggerate the electricity.

"Ryou!" I turned around for a second, knowing that Podge could make another attack at any moment, and saw that the Brit had indeed fallen. Though Axel, too, was down, Miyako was still standing, but looking exhausted. "Shit! This is bad…" Then I looked back at Podge. His orb was swirling with differently colored energies. It took me a moment to realize that those were the colors of the remaining /standing/ people's weaknesses, aside from Kagome and Tsumi. They didn't have an opposite.

Then the energy around the orb rippled, and Podge yelled, "Celestial Line!" Beams of the energy shot out at us, finally bringing Miyako down and sending me, Auron, Tsumi, Steph, and Kagome crashing into the back wall. I could tell he'd used our weaknesses against us. I couldn't get up. I knew that had been a psychic attack. When I glanced around the room, Kagome was the only one left standing.
"Podge…" Kagome growled. She materialized her glaive and pointed it at him with shaking arms.

"Yes, Hexias? You have a few last words, perhaps?" The orb on his cane generated a void, and I felt myself being drained of what was left of my energy. "Schwartz Strahl…" Podge muttered. The energy I'd lost had been sucked up into that void. When he spoke those words, the void inverted, and all of the energy shot out directly at Kagome.

And I couldn't save her.