Chapter Seventeen-The Awakening
!Warning! Some scenes are found not suitable for children. This story includes violence, mild language, and adult content. Reader discretion is advised.
The future Kagome and Adeth stared at eachother with the looks of despise in eachothers faces, it was impossible to tell who was angrier.
Adeth took her stance,"I don't how you were able to break out, but I'm glad cause now I can kill you right infront of everyone." Her lips widened in a sly smirk.
Kagome gave a small laugh,"We'll have to see about that won't we?"
Kagome also took a fighting stance. The others watched in awe at the new Kagome with thier mouths open. Usually Kagome was the one needed in rescue, but this one was going to be doing the rescuing.
Adeth charged at her and a sword slipped from her sleeve into her hands and she thrusted it down on Kagome. Everyone gasped at Adeth's surprising attack. But Kagome was never strucked. She blocked the sword with her bow that she held like a sword. She threw the sword back and did a spinning kick and knocked it out of her hands.
"Oh my god!" Gasped Sango. Kagome had just punched Adeth and left the others breathless and Adeth very angry. She shot Kagome with a fire burst, but Kagome used her bow to protect her from them. She put her hand over her back and drew three arrows.
"Now, I'm going to kill you and return everything to normal,"she mounted her arrows and aimed. Adeth's eyes widened in fear and she stuck up her hands to block with her wind powers. Kagome's arrows shot toward her and broke through the wind wall and stabbed her into the tablet with an arrow in each wrist and one in her feet to form a cross. Adeth screamed as her blood trickled down from her wounds. She growled at Kagome with blazing eyes.
"You bitch! This isn't over!" Vines wrapped themselves around Kagome and shattered all her arrows and her bow and was now squeezing her. Adeth pulled out the bloody arrows snapped them in half.
Even though Kagome was trapped in Adeth's attack, she did not struggle,"You think I need my bow to defeat you?" Her energy was starting to inhance and she started to glow a deep purple and then the vines desintigrated. Kagome gracefully stepped down and glared at her,"You are very simple-minded, you forgot that I am a priestess of spiritual abilities and I can surely kick your ass."
"Fuck you!" Adeth attacked her with a sword that she made out of ice.
Kagome did a back flip just before it smashed into the ground leaving no marks but the echo of the ice on what sounded like glass. Adeth then began to thrust the sword at her in an attept that she would be stabbed.
Kagome moved back to dodge each one. Adeth gave another strong thrust and barely got Kagome, but right under her underarm and into one of the crystals. The Fire Crystal shattered and burst into flames.
"No!" Adeth had lost the power of fire and she punched Kagome and she fell to the floor.
Kagome had her hand over her lower jaw where the aching from the blow was,"Dammit!" She's gonna guard the crystals now and won't let me get near them. I'll have to trick her agai-
Before she could finish the thought, she was struck in the back of the head and felt warm blood ooze down her face. She hit the ground and rolled over to avoid an attack with a new sword that was ice and thorns. Kagome jumped back up to avoid another thrust. Adeth seemed to be stronger and Kagome barely had time to make an attack. Adeth kicked her in the gut and Kagome keeled over in pain.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted. It came on instinct. He tore Tetsaiga off the wall and out of the vines and went to Kagome's side. Kagome blocked Adeth's attack by putting up a barrier between her and the blade.
"Awaken the others! I can handle her!" Kagome grabbed her wrists to stop from being punched and pushed Adeth back. "Go!" With a little force she sent him and the others back to the rest of the gang in the crystal.
Kagome was pushed under everyone and they all struggled to free themselves from the future Kagome's push of energy."What do we do?" she asked.
"We can try to get them out,"said Miroku. He tore his staff off the wall along with Sango's hiraikotsu and he tossed it to her and struck the crystal that contained Shippo. His staff vibrated from the blow, but the crystal did nothing.
In the back ground, Kagome and Adeth were fighting and now pushing against eachother as Kagome held her fists in her hands.
Sango struck the wall with her boomerang and it bounced right off and Sango set it on the ground,"Damn, nothing again."
"Stand back!" Inuyasha rose Tetsaiga above his head,"Wind scar!" The others just barely dove out of the way from the blow. The wind died down and the glass was still there."Shit!"
If only she had an arrow, then maybe Kagome could use her spiritual powers to break it. Her consentration was broken when Adeth was thrown into the wall beside them with the other Kagome clutching a piece of glass to her throat. Kagome had a tear in her shoulder and was pretty beat up and Adeth had blood oozing down her dress from a cut on her left hip and had a swollen lip. Kagome pressed the glass harder on her neck and was about to slit her throat.
"Drop it and she won't get hurt,"said the same blood curtling voice.
They all turned thier heads and saw Death holding Naori with a dagger to her throat and Mazuki with a clawed hand gripping the front of her throat. Kagome dropped Adeth and turned to Death instead.
"Let them go!" She hissed at her. Then Kagome realized she made a huge mistake because Adeth nailed her in the back of the head and she fell to the ground.
:crick, creeeek, crack:
"What the-!" Adeth turned around and so did the others.
The crystal that contained Miroku was cracking. They saw his hand twitch and more cracking. The cracks followed to Sango. Everyone backed off slowly.
"No! This can't be! They can't escape!" Adeth was shaking her head.
The cracks could go no further since the box that held Kagome was shattered and left a gap between Inuyasha and Shippo and Miroku and Sango. Sango's arm twitched a few times with more cracks. Her lips slightly parted and she said something that the others couldn't hear.
"The glass is breaking! They're awakening!" Gasped Miroku.
The future Miroku had his brows furrowed and the cracking continued. He raised his arm and clenched his fist with his eyes still closed. Sango pressed her hand against the glass that contained her.
Then it shattered.
Kenta and Shippo were left behind at the campsite and they were eating Kagome's treats and watching the sky turn to dusk. The others hadn't return yet and their scents were gone.
"Shippo,I'm worried,"said Kenta looking down at his feet. He began to nervously flick pebbles off.
"I'm sure they'll come back, they probably got lost after fighting some demon and they'll find thier way back sometime before nightfall,"Shippo knew that this was false. Inuyasha's hearing and sense of smell would make sure that he would reach them, but Shippo had to give some comfort to young Kenta, but he wasn't sure that it worked.
"But it's already sundown, what if they never return? I can't live without my mommy and daddy or my sister!" He started to cry,"I want my mommy and daddy!"
"It's okay, they'll be here! And you can be with your mommy and daddy real soon and they will take you and Mazuki and Naori back home and we can return everything the way it was before." It had just occured to Shippo that it was Sango and Miroku who were his parents and it seemed odd; if Sango and Miroku marry, why does she get so angry at him?
Kenta sobbed,"You promise?" He looked up with his eyes glistening and pink from the wet tears.
Shippo nodded,"I bet that if you go to sleep, you will wake up and they will be here." Wow, I'm acting like a guardian for him. He told me that I watch him in the future. Funny.
Kenta smiled and rolled in the blanket they found in Kagome's pack and fell asleep. Shippo looked up at the dieing sunlit sky. Please guys, come back soon.
Everyone was blown back from the force. It was amazing how much energy was in those crystals. As they were released from thier glass prisons, Miroku and Sango stepped down.
Sango was wearing her demon slayer's armor, but it had a chain with a spike around her waist that Sango from the past knew it was Kohaku's, and she had her hair in a messy bun to keep out of her eyes. Miroku had his usual monk robes but the cloth around his hand was gone.
Miroku held out his staff with the look of despise and disgust,"Let go of them." He warned her.
Death gave a shudder laugh,"You wouldn't want me to hurt her now would you?" She clicked her claws that were around her throat.
"HIYA!" The future Sango sent the chain at her and it wrapped around Mazuki's waist and pulled her in. Death tried to cut the chain, but Miroku kicked her in the gut, pushing her back. She dropped Naori and Kagome ran up and caught her.
Adeth charged at Miroku, but Sango grabbed her arm,"Hands off, he's busy!"
Then she flung her over her shoulder and into the broken glass, but Adeth caught herself. "I'll show you!" Adeth whipped Sango back with a gust of wind and she collided with Miroku. They both jumped up and Miroku took Sango behind him.
"Sango, you and the others try to find a way out of here!" He blocked Adeth's attack of flying tree roots.
"There's two of them, it'll be hard for you to take them both. I'll help you fight." She dodged Death's kick and other attacks. Sango pulled out a hidden dagger from her sleeve and began to use it on Death. Death backed off to avoid each swing that Sango put out. Miroku and Adeth had thier sword and staff clashing.
"Kagome, I need your help,"said the future Kagome who appeared right behind her with Naori and Mazuki,"Here take Mazuki, then help me destroy the rest of the crystals while they have them distracted." Kagome nodded and followed her future self to the tablet."Great, she has a barrier around it." Kagome set Naori down against the glass wall. Kagome also set down Mazuki next to Naori.
"How do we get through it?" The past Kagome asked.
The other Kagome ignored her and approached the barrier. She put up her hand and began to move it towards the barrier. Little bolts of electricity began to shock her fingertips, but she moved closer until her tips were now touching the barrier. Then Kagome seemed to be doing a spell as she muttered words under her breath. Her hand slipped in with the bolts still shocking her hand. A hole opened and allowed her hand to slip further, the hole grew wider every inch she went. Kagome watched in awe at her self's spiritual abilities, she was infact a true priestess.
A/N: This chapter wasn't very log, infact all of these are rather short. Okay, well you can kinda guess that there are no other lemons in here since there are only 21 chaps. That's my longest yet. Tell me what you think pweese!