Hello everyone! I know what you're all thinking…. "Why is she starting another new story when she hasn't updated her other ones in months?"
And the answer is…..
Because I feel like it! And I have to keep my creative flow flowing! My muse is a little eccentric….
Muse: Eccentric? ME? eye twitches
Me: Ahem…uh… no! No, we're talking about another muse. Not you! Heh heh…You? Eccentric? Pshaw!
Muse: You are talking about me, aren't you? You're always whispering things behind my back!
Me: cough paranoid… cough
Muse: I'll show you paranoid…..pulls out mallet Bwahahaha! smiles evilly
Me: sweatdrops We weren't talking about you…I…um…swear? No! Not the mallet! Aaaargh!
A little while later…..
Ahem….due to technical muse difficulties ….examines black eye in mirror…..we had an interruption of our program…..spits out tooth …..But don't worry! The show will go on!
Disclaimer- I do not own Inuyasha.
It is the year 3042. Earth is ravaged by civil wars and pollution. The once sublime world is practically destroyed. Trees are blackened and warped. The grass is dead. The sky is black. Water outside of a bottle is undrinkable. The air is hard to breathe.
Countries are consumed by greed but not for money. For resources. Money is a thing of the past; it became worthless centuries ago. Now, the nations of the world fight for resources. It has been unusually calm for the past 10 years, because they've been trying to rebuild their economy and strength.
But today, chaos erupts once more. A new food source has been discovered by scientists of an unknown country. America thinks it's the Soviet Union. China thinks it's Japan. So everyone starts attacking each other all at once, demanding the formula to the new food. Invasions are imminent, and in some countries, already happening.
Today, the wars on earth have caused the invasion of Japan, where the GenetixExperimentation Inc. headquarters is located. Genetic experimenting still isn't legal, but that doesn't stop the government of Japan. They have large, top-secret companies and research facilities, dedicated to one thing.
Creating the perfect being. Creating creatures that will make Japan the most powerful nation in the world. Creatures that will be unstoppable. Creatures that won't feel pain, won't need sleep, and won't question orders. And one of these creatures, an experiment thought to be a failure, is watching the Scientists run around in panic from the window of his cell….
Inuyasha leans against his door and studies the atmosphere outside. Last year, the Scientists had decided he was ready for the intensive, round the clock study period called Observation and he had just gotten out a few days ago. He had had to live in an unbreakable glass environment and never given a moments peace. He had hated it, and made sure they knew.
The day he was released from Observation, he had had an awful headache that showed up on their monitors. They kept asking him the stupidest questions, like "what does it feel like?" Then they would simulate a loud noise into his cell and ask him if it bothered him. When he flew into a fit of rage, hit the wall and cracked the glass, they finally decided he was finished. They dubbed him a failed experiment because he was too uncontrollable and threw him back in his cell. They were extremely pissed because they had poured an especially large amount of time and money into him. But they still put his name on the long list of failed experiments to be destroyed. So he was left here to rot. They didn't feed him because they didn't see any point in wasting food on something that would be destroyed anyway.
They had programmed him to be exceptionally intelligent. Cunning. Cruel. Decisive. Quick-thinking. They had intermingled it within his DNA. It's what he is. The Scientists had taught him the history of the world, so he knew why the planet was crippled; why the sky was black during the day, and a number of different shades at night. He knew what had happened. He knew who had destroyed it.
The humans.
Oh sure, the Scientists always made it sound like it was every other nation besides Japan who had killed the earth, but he was born with a mind that could make it's own decisions. So he knew to blame the annihilation of the planet on the humans.
He knew when he woke up today that something was wrong. He didn't have to sleep very often, but he still had to sleep. The fact that he could sleep was another reason why he was labeled a failure. The Scientists were always picky when it came to creating the perfect being. And sleep was considered a flaw.
He could smell it the air. Something was utterly, and irrevocably wrong. It made him uneasy. If the Scientists were in a panic, it was bad. People were running by and screaming. Someone was pushed up against the wall in the chaos, and the button that opened his door was pushed.
He was free.
Freedom was a new concept for him. He had always been behind something; contained by something. There had never been any hope of freedom, he never dreamed of being released. Freedom was…. inconceivable. But he hesitated only a moment before going through the doorway.
Chaos. Terror. That was the only way to describe the feeling in the atmosphere. He was immune to the infectious feeling of panic. Yet another blessing from his makers. The ability to keep a level head. But he knew something big was going on. Scientists were running everywhere, deleting data from the computers, and gathering the experiments that they believed to be the most perfect. Inuyasha had no idea where they would be taking them, but he figured they had another building somewhere more guarded and hidden.
He saw a flash of silver and gold through the crowd and did a double take. Another experiment was being restrained, although it looked compliant enough. An experiment that resembled him. Long silver hair, amber eyes, and sharp nails. He looked perfect. The experiment was staring at Inuyasha with a detached look. It wasn't the blank stare of a mindless creature; it was a cold, calculated look of an intelligent killer. Inuyasha couldn't help but stare back. The experiment was being put into hi-tech handcuffs, and there were at least 10 people standing by with stunners all pointed at him. The experiment waited until the restraints were on and locked. Inuyasha saw him smile slightly, evilly.
And then the restraints were broken and the scientists dead in the time it took Inuyasha to blink twice.
The experiment gave him another blank look, and then swiftly jumped out the window. Inuyasha dismissed what had just happened and left. He started jogging down the corridor, his white clothes blending in with the hospital like environment. Just for the heck of it, he glanced in a few cell windows as he passed.
He soon wished he hadn't.
Horrific. That's the only way to describe what he saw. He had had no idea of what the Scientists were really capable of until now. There were experiments that were so mutilated, they shouldn't have been alive. But they were, because the Scientists had drugged them with an assortment of new, untested medication and they were hooked up to all kinds of machines that wouldn't let them die. One of the experiments lifted its head and gazed at Inuyasha with a pleading look in its malformed eyes.
"Kill me", the look clearly said. Inuyasha swallowed the bile rising in his throat and turned away. He continued jogging down the corridor, until he heard something that made him stop.
He heard voices coming from within one of the cells. Angry, threatening voices. He came to the cell and looked in the window.
And for the first time in his life, he saw something and knew he would never be the same again.
At the time, he didn't know what to call her. If he had known of such things, he would have called her an angel. Only an angel could be that beautiful.
There were Scientists in there with her. They have some kind of mechanisms encircling their heads. She's naked and has wires connected to her entire body. The Scientists are approaching her and she is backed against a wall. Inuyasha can see the disgusting grins on their faces as they look at her. And the look on her face tells him she knows what they're intending to do to her.
Inuyasha reads on the door, "WARNING! EXPERIMENT IS EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS. AUTHORIZED ENTRY ONLY." He looks back in the room and notices that she does not look like the other experiments. She looks just like any other human, except for her extraordinary beauty. She has long, blue-black hair which contrasts sharply against her pale, unblemished skin. Her eyes are a deep, cold blue. She looks haunted, and fierce. Unafraid. Suddenly, the Scientists grab her and she is fighting them. He can tell she wasn't programmed to fight, and she fumbles a lot. But she is angry and cornered, so she fights like her life depends on it. Which it does.
Suddenly, one of the scientists gives up trying to take her by force, and he pushes a button on his wrist. The girl starts screaming; tears are streaming down her face and she holds her head, doubling over in pain. Inuyasha is suddenly struck with an insane fury. How could they torture such a beautiful creature? He doesn't have any kind of authorization, so he punches the door and his fist shoots right through it. He tears it apart.
Once inside, he attacks the one Scientist, quickly snapping his neck. Then he turns to the Scientist who pressed the button.
"Get away from me!" the Scientist screams, trying to pull his stunner out. Inuyasha slashes at his hip where the gun is and blood paints the walls. The Scientist falls to the ground; shrieking. Inuyasha cuts his throat and the remainder of the mans blood pools around him on the floor. He smashes the device on his wrist, and the girl stops screaming. She huddles in the corner, looking up at him and breathing hard. He suddenly feels a probing in his mind, and closing his eyes tightly, he groans, grabbing his head.
The girl has a cold look in her eyes as she watches him suffer. Inuyasha is overcome by an intense pain in his head. It feels as though thousands of tiny red-hot needles are poking into his brain, and he can barely stay conscious. This pain was unlike any he had ever experienced, and he had experienced a lot. The Scientists had felt it best to "help" him build an immunity to pain.
'He has dog ears….'
Suddenly, the pain subsides. He knows the girl caused the pain, and looking up at her, he notices an expression of awe and confusion on her face. He quickly stands and pushes her hard, holding her tightly against the wall. He feels stupid for letting his guard down just because of how harmless she looks.
"Don't…do that again." He growls loudly in her ear. She doesn't move in his grasp.
'I-I'm sorry. I thought…' She didn't say the rest but he got the picture. She had thought he was going to hurt her. She had thought he was another mindless experiment, like so many others.
Then he realized she hadn't spoken a word.
He had been watching her mouth for reasons he didn't know, and he was sure her lips hadn't moved. He released her like she was fire.
"What the hell are you!" he demands angrily. She covers herself, suddenly aware of her own nudity. Inuyasha turns away; his face tinged pink, as she pulls clothes the same as his out from under the bed. He was surprised she had a bed. Usually, only important experiments were given beds.
She finished dressing and turned to look at him.
'I'm not human obviously, if that's what you wanted to know.' She says into his mind, and in his mind, she sounds as angelic as she looks. He is temporarily baffled by the innocence in her mind-voice.
"Well than what are you? You don't look like an experiment. Don't smell like one either." He said. She blushed in embarrassment at being studied. 'You would think I'd have gotten used to it by now…' she thought.
'I'm a psi. Not that it's any of your business. What are you?' she asks, and her cold indifference alarms him. Someone that beautiful should not be so defensive. He growls. 'Why the fuck should I care?' he thinks, angrily. He looks up at her and notices her shocked and bemused expression. 'Dammit. This is just not my day…'He hurriedly continues the conversation.
"They haven't figured it out yet. But for the record, I think they have me down as a mix of human and dog. But there's a bunch of unknown shit in my DNA that they couldn't figure out.'
'You have…dog ears…' She says, bewildered.
"Yeah, I noticed." He says sardonically, "Are you breaking out or not?" he says, finally getting to the point.
'Breaking out? Where would I break out to?' she asks, curiously. He blinks. 'Wow. I guess beauty and brains don't go hand in hand.'
Her eyes widen. 'You jerk! What would you know about brains!' she yells angrily into his mind.
"God dammit….Stop snooping around in here!" he jabs at his head.
'You talk of brains as if you have some.' In his mind, he can hear the dripping sarcasm. She crosses her arms over her chest and turns her nose up at him.
"Listen, the shit's hit the fan out there, and something tells me this place ain't gonna be here any longer. So are you coming or not?"
'Go with you? But…I…um…I mean, where…'
"I don't have time for you to think about it!" he says franticly. It's like he can here a bomb ticking, and they're running out of time. "Right now, yes or no!"
'Yes. I'll go with y-'
"Then let's go!" he grabs her arm and starts running down the corridors. He doesn't know why he didn't leave her. She'll only slow him down. But when he thought of her dying here, he got an unpleasant feeling. And he knew she would die if she stayed here. They all would.
He can't find the exit. Of course, he's never seen it. Only heard about it from bits of conversation between the Scientists. But he knows it's around here somewhere. It must be; has to be. And then he smells it. Air. Foul, fetid air. But air from outside nonetheless. Inuyasha runs towards it, the girl in tow. What they expected to see when they came through the doorway was nothing compared to what they saw.
A violet sky. The sun, of which they've heard so little about, no where to be seen. No stars. Just violet sky.
'I thought the sky was supposed to be blue? And where's the sun?' her clear voice rang in his mind.
"The humans destroyed the atmosphere. And I think the sun is setting. It's too low for us to see." And suddenly, he can see a star.
A bright and deadly shining star.
And in that moment, he knows they'll never live to see the sun rise.
God, that was a good ending, ne? This has the makings of a great story, if I do say so myself. And I do.
Bwahahaha! Monkeys from mars with marinate with mongos! I know what you're all thinking. "She's crazy! She belongs in the loony bin!"
Been there, done that.
Heh heh…. needless to say, I have lived a strange life. Someday, I will write a book about it so everyone can see just how strange it really is. And then everyone will understand the strangeness that is me! Muahahaha!
-AngelsTears15