Love beyond the Western Lands: The Curse of the Black Gem

Chapter 3: Kikyou's Arrival

Inuyasha slashed at the dummy. "SANKON TESSOU!" Miroku and Sango walked up to him. "Inuyasha!" Sango yelled. "Kagome came to visit!" Miroku yelled. "KAGOME!" Inuyasha yelled gleefully. He ran back to the village and to see Kaede, Kagome and Shippou. "Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled. She ran directly into his arms. "Inuyasha!" Kaede said tiredly. "Come! The festival is about to start."

"Alright!" Shippou cheered.

Kikyou hiked up burning red road. "Damn," Kikyou thought wearily. Suddenly, she heard men cheering, women screaming, men struggling. She ran up the road and hid behind a cooled molten rock. A man with a strange mark on his forehead threw a man onto a wall.

"Bankotsu Ooaniki!" Yelled a man who vaguely resembled a woman. "I found a quite handsome man! Should I…?" "Do as you wish, Jakotsu," Bankotsu said, bored. "Yahoo!" Jakotsu yelled gleefully. A muffled scream, followed by the spurting of blood rang out in the air. Soon, five other men appeared: One, with a huge cannon: Renkotsu, another with fluffed hair, claws and without the stripes: Suikotsu, an over-sized member of the group: Kyoukotsu, another with an entire book-bag of poisonous liquids and gases: Mukotsu and another one made entirely of metals and cannons: almost like a tank! Yes, it is Ginkotsu.

Bankotsu took a huge halberd. Kikyou's eyes widened and at once recognized it as Banryuu. "AAH, please… NOOO!" the man screamed. Bankotsu raised Banryuu. "Save your pleas for someone much softer than I. I will not dishonor the name of the Shichinintai and my own, Bankotsu," Bankotsu said, unmercifully. Kikyou slung her bow. "Let it hit the spot," Kikyou thought. "…The scar that was left by Inuyasha at the base of Banryuu." As Bankotsu began to thrust, Kikyou released her arrow. It smacked the base of Banryuu and ricocheted, smacking Jakotsu's snake sword as it went, then smacking Suikotsu's claws, then breaking the straps of the poison smoke cases of Mukotsu, then it busted through the skull of Kyoukotsu, taking out a black gem fragment and killing him, then blasting through the eye of Ginkotsu and then taking out a black gem fragment and killing him as well. Suddenly, two of Naraku's poison bees came and gripped the black fragments then fluttering away.

"Who…?" Bankotsu began. He raised Banryuu, looking for the culprit. Kikyou rose out from her hiding place, gripping a Kwan Dao: A Chinese halberd with a horizontal crescent moon on the base of the hilt. Kikyou slid the blade underneath Bankotsu's neck. "Bankotsu," Kikyou said. "You and the Shichinintai have terrorized Fire Town, the town in which Enju rules over and watches. Leave immediately or I will slay you all!"

All five of the Shichinintai laughed haughtily. Kikyou smirked, "Don't believe me?" Kikyou began. "Of course! I'll give you a sample!" Kikyou leapt in the air and spun in a circle. Swinging her Kwan Dao, powerful blasts exploded. With her ultimate power: Tian Kwan Dao (Sky Guardian's Slash: This is Chinese and is nothing related to Japanese), she blew away Banryuu.

Bankotsu stood in wonder, watching as his weapon got blown away and stabbed into a dirt mound some 50 feet away. He looked back at the woman. She tightened her grip on the halberd. "Onna (Woman)!" Bankotsu yelled. "State your name and business!" The woman hissed and tightened her grip even more. "Watashi wa Tai-Miko Kikyou (I am Great Priestess Kikyou," Kikyou said. "Watashi yare korosen kazu ku saisashimatsu… IKTEKISHIMATSU! (I will kill you if you don't leave this place… NOW GET OUT!)" Kikyou yelled.

To be continued…