Chapter Sixteen-The Smashing
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Crystal Kagome held tightly to the crystal. Her eyes were closed and someone was shaking her,"Kagome wake up."
It was Inuyasha. She slowly opened her eyes and saw the same darkness with the invisible light. She blinked as she remembered the earlier events. Sango and Miroku were there also. Sango had Naori and Miroku had Mazuki and they were still unconcious, still souless.
"How can we get thier souls back in them?" Kagome asked standing up. She still held the crystal to her chest and holding it tightly,"Where's the demon?"
"The demon didn't follow us, and I'm not sure how to return thier souls,"said Sango looking down at the hanyou girl.
"Return the crystal to the tablet and they will return to normal,"said the same echoing voice.
Adeth appeareed from the shadows and the tablet with the crystal stalls appeared. They all nodded and Kagome stepped up toward the stone tablet. But a feeling erupted in her that sent chills up her spine. She felt very cold and had the suspicion that something was wrong. She took another step and the feelings grew stronger. Kagome felt like shaking as the dead coldness rushed over her.She stopped and looked at her feet.
"C'mon Kagome, put it where goes and we can get the hell out of here,"said Inuyasha.
She shook her head,"No, I'd be doing the wrong thing, I'm sensing dark energy and it's coming from this place." She took a step back. Inuyasha and the others blinked, they didn't sense anything.
"It's because your nerves are shocked from the earlier battle, you sensed nothing earlier when you returned the other crystals,"Adeth stepped towards her and Kagome backed off.
"Stay away from us! You want the crystals for power, but you couldn't get them,"Kagome walked back towards her friends as Adeth gave her a small smile.
"If what you say is true then why didn't I just go and search for the crystals myself? Trust me, I do not intend to hurt any of you, I only wish to return the balance and I will return the young ones to thier normal selves." Adeth said in a calming voice.
"You never intended to return them to normal. If I put this crystal in that tablet, you will steal it and use it's power for evil! I will not let you have it!" Kagome yelled at her. Inuyasha had no idea what was going on or what Kagome was doing. Had she lost it?
"If I wanted the crystals, then why did I entrust young kids with it? They needed thier families and that was the only way to revive them. If I was evil then why would I save thier parents from death?"
Kagome glared at her and bit her lip,"Because you needed to persuade them and having thier parents trapped in these crystals would ensure that they would do anything to get them back. You needed them because you can't leave this place as they told me and only we could. But I wonder, how could the crystals could be thrown out of of the tablet in the first place? You are the only one who even knows about the crystals except us, so how could they have been unbalanced?" She smiled,"I'll tell you, you tried to get the crystals' powers so you attempted to steal it, but caused an unbalance to occur and sent them to our world. Now you had lost the crystals and needed them back but you could not leave this place, so you decided to kidnap Naori and Mazuki's parents and used them to manipulate them to retrieve the crystals!"
Adeth gave her an evil smile,"You're smarter than you look, but you were wrong about one thing. Yes, I did want the crystals for power. I had spent all my life guarding them from an imaginary evil and I grew tired and I wanted to see what kind of power they hold so I tried to take them for myself. But I overestimated them and accidently sent them away to your planet. But I did find a way for me to go to you're planet. I had to conjure a being to take my place on your world,"Adeth turned around and rose a glowing finger. In mid air, she wrote Adeth. Then she waved her hand and the letters floated to different spots and spelled out Death.
Kagome and the others gasped,"You mean-"
"I conjured Death from my dark demon side and it allowed me to see through her eyes. She found the Spirit Crystal and I told her to allow you to retrieve it and bring it to me. And she succeeded."
Inuyasha growled.They all took a step back. So Death lost intentionally because that was what she was ordered to do. That was what everyone thought. And Adeth was a traitor and led us all in a trap! How are we going to escape this hell?
"But you seem to forget that I still posses the powers of the other four crystals,"she stuck her hand out and it glowed red and fire shot out of it like a flame thrower. Inuyasha covered Kagome with his haori and pushed her out of the way. Inuyasha took out Tetsaiga. Adeth laughed,"If you could not defeat Death what makes you think that you can defeat me when I posses the powers of nature?" She sent him back with a powerful gust of wind.
Kagome ran with the crystal in the opposite direction. It was on instinct because she knew she was trapped. A giant wave of water fell over them drowning them all in cold. Kagome stuck her head up and gasping for breath. She saw the others do the same. Sango and Miroku struggled since they had the kids. The water cleared up dry and left them all soaked on the floor. Kagome spat some of the water out of her mouth and held tighter to the crystal. She got up but slipped on Inuyasha's wet haori. It was going to take all they had to defeat her and without arrows, Kagome was defenseless.
"This will be fun. Now hand over the crystal or else,"Kagome felt thick vines wrap around her legs and they began to drag her towards Adeth. With one hand, Kagome used her nails in an attempt to stop, but it did nothing for her, the vines kept dragging her.
Inuyasha clawed the vines off of her and helped her up. He stood infront of her to protect her from Adeth. Sango and Miroku also got up and protected the bodies of Naori and Mazuki.
Adeth smiled,"If the future you was no match then why do you even think that you are a match to me?"
"I don't give a damn what you say, I'm gonna slice you to pieces!" Inuyasha lunged for her and sliced down with his sword. Adeth wrapped the blade in vines and took it from Inuyasha's grip and it was stuck to the wall by the vines. It also did the same with Sango's boomerang and Miroku's staff. "Dammit!"They all cursed. Inuyasha clawed at her and she swept him on his back with a gust of wind.
Inuyasha rolled over to avoid being stabbed by an icicle. He jumped to his feet and threw punches at her, but she blocked them all with great speed and without breaking a sweat.
"I'm growing tired of this. Give me the crystal or else." She glared at him.
"Naori no!" Inuyasha heard Sango call out. Vines wrapped themselves around Naori's torso and pushed her over to Adeth.
The vines moved her too fast that Inuyasha barely saw what happened before it was too late and Adeth pointed her hand over Naori's throat,"Give me the crystal or I will kill her."
Suddenly the sound of shattering glass erupted and a sacred arrow pierced the vines and sent Naori flying and Inuyasha caught her. Adeth let out a cry as the arrow was lodged in her right hand that she held to Naori's neck.
"Get away from my baby!" Someone hissed.
Holding a bow and arrow and wearing a blue yukita, the future Kagome stood before them with broken crystal shards beneath her feet. Eveyone gasped, including Adeth.
"How did you escape my crystal!"She said alarmed.
"I missed my little girl." Kagome hissed. She had the look of pure hatred and desire to kill that Inuyasha found himself uneasy under her presence. Everyone was silent from the dramatic surprise.
A/N: Oooh, Kagome is gonna kick some major ass! Okay, I'll probably get a lot of flames for the next chapters, but Kagome knows some awesome moves. I know, she really doesn't, but this is my story so I can do whatever I want. Like make Inuyasha dance! Dance dogboy dance:Inu gives evil glare: Uhh... maybe not. Well I think it's time for the uh, nect chapter:Runs off screaming with Inu running after her: