Redemption Chapter Five a Regiment Dies.
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Sango stared out at the man who had turned everything upside down since his arrival last night. How could this man utterly destroy cities and cause Kagome to cower behind Inu Yasha as a shield in abject terror when she had faced down the greatest scum to walk the Earth without fear. This man utterly scares her and Inu Yasha also seems if not quite scared something close to it the only one who seems unperturbed is Miroku and Kamis know what is going through his mind. No sooner than she finish her thought than she felt a very familiar hand in a familiar place. "Perverted Houshi" Shippou heard followed by a loud thunk. Shippou just sighed and went on his search for more acorns so he could enspell them.
"Ah good plenty o acorns haha Kagome oughta cheer up when I sh" Shippou stopped in mid sentence when he noticed rabbit ears sticking up from the ground. When he got closer to investigate a usagi demon jump out at him. "Ahhhhhhh" Shippou screamed before realizing the rabbit vixen was about his age and seemed to have hiding for some time. "Who are you" Shippou asked.
The rabbit demon replied with the name "Hitomi."
"What has you hiding way out here Hitomi" Shippou inquired of her.
"My parents ran afoul of a bad man named Naraku and my mother told me one night to run for it. When I looked back there was this evil man who was eating my parents. I've been on the run ever since then." She frightfully answered.
"Its okay I'll protect you with my life." Shippou replied while striking a pose. I'm starting to sound like Inu Yasha he thought. It had the effect of calming Hitomi though which would bode no good for in the shadows lurked a plot to kill and it was about to be hatched out of its shell.
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Ferebe was walking through the woods reminsencing the past and always prevalent was the giant mushroom clouds that he above all others had dropped. It was all unnecessary as Japan was about to surrender and even if action was needed an Armour sweep of the Kanto plains would have secured a surrender with minimal casualties on both sides. Yet he had dropped them and ushered in an era in which the world always lived under a shadow of death so complete that none could foresee the end of it while the world lasted. As he walked smoking his cigar not caring what the coffin nail did to him. He remembered the callousness of what he had done on the Enola Gay named after Colonel Tibbet's mother and the arrogant Captain Bock's Bock's Car. What had finally broken him were all the paintings, photographs, fratricides, and cold blooded murder of his fellow man as a result of what he had done. As is always the case when man discovers a new toy he rapidly improves it and thus the 15 kilotons that annihilated Hiroshima quickly grew to megatons, then gigatons, and if it were practicable to employ such a weapon on Earth a teraton weapon would have been built. As is always the case everyone lost in the world he created and now that world's children would have to pay the price of a nation's arrogance that which it could not turn back from, but here hope remained that if freedom could gain root here then his sin could be redeemed. For once the uranium slug impacted the front slump of uranium released what in today's terms of combat power would consider a firecracker and the larger universe would all but ignore as a lighter flick released the very truth to this world that this universe was indeed created and that someone was the source of such a power and had free rein to do what he pleased. He would not let it happen in this new world he intended create. A world of freedom and relative peace.
As he bent down to inspect a piece of fabric on the ground that he noticed, a female voice behind him said "so you're the one who has Naraku mad. Though I must say you hardly look like a threat to anyone but orders are orders and I have to kill you."
"You would cut me down with my back turned how cowardly" Ferebe thinking fast said remembering that if his plan was to work he had to be dead on.
"Very well you may face me" The female replied, it was her first mistake and last. Ferebe's foot was dead on into the crotch area with enough force to paralyze her. His hand was at her throat the next second and a K-bar he pick up from a dead Marine the next. Kagura noticed that the face went from sheer fierceness that she had never seen before in mortal men to sheer puzzleness.
"You don't have a pulse" Tom said more to himself than to her. "You intrigue me" it was the last thing Kagura heard before everything went dark all around her. Looking around she saw a light. Heading towards it she noticed a man with a pin.
"Hello am I dead" she asked in as even a voice she could manage.
"You are as alive as anyone else, just between life and death. My servant Ferebe brought you here because you needed help in a way he could not give you. He felt if he could save you there would be hope, (pricks his finger) and now behold the essence that is life. (His blood forms a DNA helix that builds to tissue then a heart) Behold the heart when it beats there is great joy. When it dies there is great mourning." He revealed.
The world returned to normal. "Welcome back to the world of the waking." Ferebe said.
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Shippou and Hitomi were playing tag through the woods not noticing they were being shadowed by Kanna who was just out of sight. Naraku had given her orders to kill Shippou as soon as dark fell or insufficient light remained such that the evidence she planted wouldn't be discounted. It was time. "Hello, I'm afraid Naraku is quite upset with you and has ordered your souls taken." Kana said while watching the two faces fill with fright. She was about to raise her mirror when an oily voice behind her said
"Well, well, well what have we here 3 kids out way past their bed time." Without even turning Kanna knew they were Vampires. Her instinct was to run as Vampires though rare were undefeatable. Thus she ran along with Hitomi and Shippou.
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Kagome was getting worried. Shippou hadn't shown up yet for dinner and wasn't playing with any of the other village children. Though she didn't trust the nuclearcide she was worried for his safety as the forest had many dangers in it plus being an old man he would probably have medical conditions. The man had to at least be in his 80s for crying out loud. Inu Yasha came in just she was about to go get him. "Inu Yasha can you help me find Shippou and The General please?" Kagome asked.
"Okay since you'll bug me till I agree." Inu Yasha replied. Out the door they spotted Miroku on the ground with an enraged Sango over him. Both Inu Yasha and Kagome sighed.
"Sango could you and Miroku help us find Shippou and The General." Kagome asked.
"Sure Kagome." Sango answered while dragging Miroku. They walked deep into the forest when Inu Yasha heard audible screams with Shippou's voice mixed in. "over there and hurry!" he ordered the group. They quickly ran in the direction Inu Yasha indicated but were not prepared for what they faced. It was all Inu Yasha could do to hold back Kagome. He had met Vampires before and seen one of their kind effortlessly wipe out 5 dragon youkai with no trouble. Kagome tried to get out of Inu Yasha's grasp to help Shippou and the two girls with him.
"Let me go Inu Yasha, Shippou!"
"I can't defeat them Kagome we're too late" Inu Yasha responded. Kagome cried. Sango as well cried as Miroku held her.
"Kagomeeeeeee help" Shippou cried out as the Vampires closed in.
"DESENDANCES OF JUDAS!" The voice stopped the Vampires cold as they turn around only to be blinded by a white light. Screaming in pain as Kagome and every one else watched, no one discerned the sounds of two 12.7mm semi armor-piercing high-explosive rounds traveling at 2, 987ft. per second. The two bullets hit their targets within two seconds and both Vampires turned to ash, a sight that had not been seen in Nippon for ever since Vampires came to it's Islands 400 years ago. "We have very little time I spotted a reinforced regiment of Vampires heading to the Village." Ferebe said as he came out of the tree line holding up Kagura who was still in pain from earlier.
"What!" Inu Yasha and Miroku exclaimed.
"Yes that is right; now Kagura can you move unassisted." Ferebe replied and asked. Receiving a nod he went on. "Inu Yasha you, the kids, Kagura, and Kagome head to the well and hole up in Kagome's home for now. Miroku and Sango head back to the village and warn those people that those who can't be fighting are to retire to their homes and don't open their doors as Vampires can't enter a dwelling unless they are invited in. Also tar the western approach to the village and gather all those who can fight on the eastern side with flame arrows. I will buy you guys 5 hours to prepare."
"You are going to hold a regiment of Vampires off for 5 hours?" Sango asked.
"Yes now move people!" Ferebe replied then ran off into the woods.
"Okay uh Kagura could you grab your sister and the Usagi. I'll grab Shippou." Kagome said. They all left quickly, Kagura with the kids on her feather boat, Kagome on Inu Yasha's back, and Miroku and Sango on Kiarra to their designated places by Ferebe's order.
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I have got to be out of my mind Ferebe thought to himself as he got into another running battle with Vampires. After running off into the forest he had staged no less than 19 ambushes killing 200 Vampires and now it was time to head back as he had exhausted his supply of bullets and his sword arm and since the village should have had ample time to prepare. He broke into a run ramming his last clip into his pistol. Pulling back the slide cock and releasing it he thought to himself well the first batch was easy enough. The first vanguard of 50 entered the fork in the woods and began to mass up for their drive on the village. They were no match for his accurate shooting. All 50 of them were killed, but of course that had stirred up the hornets nest leaving him in his current situation. He managed to clear the forest in five minutes. He waited for the Vampires to enter the kill zone before turning to Sango who had figured out his plan and awaited the signal to loose arrows. "Sango give them hell." Ferebe told her.
"Aye, Loose!" 600 arrows flew as one into the kill zone killing most of the Vampires. The survivors died in the second volley of arrows never seeing their killers.
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"So he has usurped my daughters and defeated a Vampire army, hmm. New orders observe and find out his weakness." Naraku then turned back to the girl whose parents had given up to appease him. The twelve year old girl looked at him with fear. Naraku gently pushed her down and began removing her kimono. The girl started to cry but Naraku silenced her with a kiss. Despite how he treated his enemies and children he was always a gentle lover to his concubines ensuring their devotion. After he was done with his latest concubine he went back to his paperwork all the while stroking the girl's hair as she had quickly learned how to please him. She would be of use to him for a while. Right now however he had this unknown upstart who had somehow over turned his curse. Then of course their were rumors of a new human weapon on Kyushu that was wrecking demon armies as if they weren't even there. Then there were reports of a new religion in Satsuma province that as far as he could make out was a new form of Buddhism that strangely did not acknowledge the Buddha but a man named Christ. He would have keep tabs on these developments.
Author notes. Biology101 both Females and Males are sensitive in the crotch area except Females are more Sensitive but hard to connect with. Males are easier to connect with but less sensitive.
For those who like calibers 12.7mm is a .45.