I do not own Inuyasha (but I wish I did), though I do own Amily and any other none Inuyasha characters that show up.
Chapter 10.
Broken Wings.
Many hours and several 'sits' and 'perverts' later the small group of people reached a small village resting on the edge of a cliff. The group felt a small twinge of sorrow when they saw that only a few houses where left standing and the rest had been destroyed.
"Well let's see if there are any survivors left"
Said Inuyasha as he walked into the entrance of the village, but was stopped when a bunch of people appeared with spears and pitchforks.
"Get back demon!"
An old man yelled at him.
"Easy old man we're here to help"
It looked as if they didn't believe him, until Amily stepped up to lend a helping hand, when the villagers saw her and her wings, they instantly dropped their weapons and dropped to the ground in worship, Amily stopped, and leaned over to Inuyasha and whispered.
"That's a first"
He looked at her and smirked slightly.
"Yeah I bet"
Kagome had to cover her mouth to keep from chuckling at Amily's startled looked, when the village elder, or what Kagome thought was the village elder walking up looking down in respect.
"Dear sweet angel, you have heard our prayers and have brought your helpers to assist us in our plight, how can we ever thank you?"
With out giving her a chance to answer, the village elder turned and addressed his people.
"My people, we are saved, our prayers have been answer. Kami has sent us one of his angels to defend us again the demon that attacks us!"
The village erupted in a chorus of cheers. And Kagome watched smirking as Amily, was dragged off to be worshiped.
Darkness had fallen before they got to see her again and when they had, they where stunned no longer was she wearing her jeans and torn, dirty blood stained shirt. Now she was wearing a grey blue kimono, with a design of cherry blossom running down the left sleeve, her red hair had been swept up into a hairstyle that softened her face, she was wearing a pair of sandals and she had a light touch of light green eye shadow that brought out her eyes, her wings had been adorned with strings of light gold, she looked like a princess, and only one word described her.
Uncomfortable.
Kagome chuckled and walked up to her friend.
"Having a good time Amily?"
Amily looked at her and grumbled.
"Ah, stuff it. In the last few hours I've had to bless everyone, and the graves of the dead. I've had to bless their houses, but I managed to find out why the village was being attacked"
At Kagome's questioning look, Amily answered.
"The village is being attacked because of a well in the centre of the village, it is said to instantly energize a person, and give them incredible powers when they drink the water from it, they wanted me to bless that too."
Amile sighed.
"I didn't have a heart to tell them I wasn't an angel sent down from God to save them"
Kagome smiled sympathetically and hugged the other girl, don't worry it'll be over soon"
The wind suddenly turned cold and Kagome felt the jolt that told her that a jewel shard was coming, she looked around franticly for Inuyasha as she ran to gather her bows and arrows, when she saw him. She yelled out to him.
"Inuyasha, there's a jewel shard coming!"
He looked at her, tensing up.
"Were?"
He yelled back. Kagome concentrated and felt it coming from her right side. She pointed the forest where they could see something moving quickly through woods.
"There!"
Inuyasha growled and pulled out his Tetsusaiga. It transformed quickly and he held it at the ready, Kagome notched her bow with and arrow and charged it with her miko powers, Songo and Miroku appeared ready for battle and Amily stood there calmer then Kagome had ever seen her, Amily stood there with her arms at her side and her face devoid of emotion. She was ready for battle. Kagome knew this with out really knowing it. The beast exploded into the village, sending the villagers screaming and looking for shelter, the best had multiple heads the dripped poison, it was large a bulky, and covered in spines
Kagome saw pink glow in it belly and she called out.
"It's in it's stomach Inuyasha!"
But before he could saw anything the demon charged at the small group bringing its heads down, thinking it could destroy this group of weak humans and demons by eating them. The group jumped away. Songo jumped onto Kilala's and took off into the air, she threw her boomerang and managed to slice off two of its six heads leaving only four, and using the Tetsusaiga Inuyasha managed to cut another off leaving only three left. Kagome pulled the string on her bow till it was tight and let her miko charged arrow fly, but was shocked when a whirlwind knocked the arrow out of the way. She looked and saw Kagura standing there smirking, and holding her fan loosely.
"Kagura"
Kagome gasped softly. The wind witch grinned.
"How do you like my little pet?"
Kagome glared and knocked another arrow into her bow and let the arrow go, but Kagura knocked it away as if it were nothing but a pesky fly.
"Sorry, but I cant let you do that, Naraku wants that water from the well, so he will never lose power, and I want to give it to him"
Kagura lifted her fan.
"Dance of Blades!"
She called out and sent an attack at Kagome that would have shredded her if another attack hadn't disintegrated them. Kagome looked and saw Amily standing there glaring at the wind witch.
"Don't worry Kagome I'll take care of this bitch, go help Inuyasha with that beast of hers."
Kagome smiled and left to go help Inuyasha.
Amily grinned at the wind witch, and raised her hands.
"So you like picking on people who cant defend themselves? Why don't you pick on someone your own equal?"
Kagura laughed wickedly.
"And would that be you? I think not"
Amily grinned even more and let her power flow into her hands.
"I think so"
She let her attack fly towards Kagura, as it went it ate up the ground leaving a deep trench, Amily called out.
"Shockwave!"
Kagura's eyes widened as she felt the girls power increase tenfold, she saw the attack headed to wards her, and she jumped out of the way but not before it left a deep gash in her arm that caused blood to run down and begin dripping on the ground. Amily grinned wickedly. Kagura growled in rage and called out.
"Dance of Blades"
She sent the same attack out that she had sent at the other girl. Seeing the attack Amily sent of smaller blasts of her attack and destroyed all but one, she tried to doge it but her kimono prevented it and the wind blade cut deep into her side.
"Damn kimono!"
Amily snarled, and sent of several quickly blasts at the wind witch to distract her while she quickly grabbed and a discarded spear off the ground and speared the bottom of her kimono, and tore off a good portion of the bottom, so that the bottom only came half way down her thighs, showing off most of her legs, she grabbed each sleeve and ripped them off and then loosened her kimono to slacken the fabric against her wings.
"Much better"
She said her to self, and quickly jumped out of the way when Kagura sent another attack her way. Taking the spear in her hand Amily threw it at Kagura, the wind witch moved out of the way but the tip left a cut in her cheek marring her perfect complexion.
"Stupid bitch I'll get you for that!"
Mean while the others where having just as hard a time with the demon, while they where only down to one head it seemed to be the hardest to remove. Inuyasha yelled, as the demon's tail slammed into him and Miroku had been rendered unconscious by the same tail lashing that Inuyasha was receiving. And Songo's boomerang had been lodged into the side of the hydra. She had thrown it at the beast but when the boomerang hit it's hide the boomerang only penetrated slightly and then got stuck. Kagome had grabbed Shippo and hid when she ran out of arrows and could no longer be of any help. Inuyasha slid to a stop and raised his Tetsusaiga and ran at the beast. "Wind Scar!"
He sent the attack speeding to wards the hydra but sputtered when it bounced off its hide.
"What the fuck!"
The demon grinned and slammed the hanyou again sending him into several trees, leaving several deep gashes in his chest and side. The beast moved on by him grinning, and was headed towards the well, ready to drain it all of its water. Pulling himself out of the pile of knocked down trees, Inuyasha grabbed his sword and jumped onto the demons back and slammed down his sword against it's back, and was shocked when the blade bounced off its back, only managing to chip it's scales.
"What the fuck? Why can't I hurt this thing?"
It turned its head and grinned at him, it opened its mouth wide planning on swallowing him hole. Suddenly Inuyasha got an idea, he tensed and closed his eyes tightly as the demons mouth snapped shut around him, and he never heard Kagome scream his name.
"Inuyasha!"
Kagome and Shippo looked on in horror as Inuyasha was suddenly swallowed up, by the beast. Kagome felt her heart skip a beet and break. He was gone, after all his years of fighting to survive, fighting to just live. His life snuffed out in the blink of an eye. The demon roared out in triumph and once again headed to wards the well, ready to absorb the water. Tears streamed down her face, but stopped and stared as the demon jerked to a halt and began to shake violently, its eyes opened wide and it screamed out the sound causing the little hairs on the back of Kagome's and Shippo's necks to stand on end, the demons sides bulged and then the whole beast exploded, sending bits of gooey demon pieces all over the place and in the centre of the mess stood Inuyasha. Smiling brightly Kagome waved at him, then stopped as she saw something sparkling falling threw the air and knew it was a jewel shard, Shippo jumped out of her arms and raced to wards it going to catch it, knowing that the little fox demon would be able to get it for her, she turned her attention back to the other two who where fighting.
Amily stood there breathing heavily her limbs trembling, cuts and bruises and scrapes marred her body leaving rivulets of blood running down and dirt smudged her skin and kimono, but she was grinning because Kagura was in worse shape then she was, at some point during the fight Amily had managed to disarm the wind witch. Literally. Kagura stood there weakly trembling but still willing to fight.
"Give up, you've already lost"
Said Amily annoyed with the fact that even though Kagura had lost she would not give up.
"Never. I will never, give up!"
Amily sighed, tired of all the fighting she charged her hands with energy and swung a punch at Kagura, but the wind witch was to fast for her, the witch reached into the side of her kimono for the secret pocket she had there and pull out a dagger and before Amily knew what was happening, Kagura stabbed the dagger into Amily's shoulder the same one Naraku had injured three weeks previous. She stumbled back dazed and looked down where the dagger was embedded in her shoulder. Blood quickly soaked through her kimono, reaching up with her good hand Amily gripped the handle of the dagger and with a cry of pain she pulled it, clutching the handle of the dagger and feeling her life's blood draining away slowly, Amily felt something in her welling up, the way it had when she met Sesshoumaru. The feeling swelled and snapped, with a hawks cry lunged at Kagura and stabbed the dagger into her stomach. Kagura cried out in pain and staggered back Kagura pushed Amily away, determined to kill the winged girl in revenge. Because the wind- witch knew she would die from the wound in her abdomen. Raising her deadly fan, Kagura's eyes bleed red and screeched out.
"Dance of Dragon!"
Tornados formed from the fan and raced to wards Amily sucking everything up in its path. Amily's eyes open wide and using the last of her energy she threw a shock wave attack at the tornados, her attack destroyed two of the three, and deflecting the other one, her attack sped towards Kagura. The witch knew that in her weakened state she would not be able destroy or out run Amily's attack, she threw her arms up in from of her trying desperately to shield herself, and screamed out as she felt the attack hit her and beginning to dissolve her. The scream split the air catching the attention of everyone, and causing them to stop what they where doing and watch the wind witches demise. Amily watched as Kagura was killed then she turned her head quickly hearing someone else screaming, she watched in horror as the tornado moved towards Shippo, who was on his way to give the piece of jewel shard he had collected to Kagome. Amily felt her heart stop. She saw Inuyasha racing to wards the little kitsune but Amily knew he would never reach the child in time. Feeling a serge of energy from some where deep inside of her, Amily ran towards Shippo, then opened her wings and beating them hard she shot towards the child like a bullet. Amily shoved Shippo hard sending him tumbling far enough out to the way to be safe. The tornado caught Amily and sucked her up, she tried to fight the winds, but the pressure in the whirl wind was too much for her wings and Amily screamed as she felt both of them snap as if they were twigs, branches and rocks and discarded weapons flew around her hitting her and cutting deep into her. Un-known to her the whirl- wind carried her towards and then off the cliff. The tornado dissipated leaving Amily hanging in the air for a moment before she plummeted to wards the rapids far, far below. She screamed again as she felt gravity betray her, but her scream was cut short as her head hit a jutting rock effectively knocking her out.
Kagome, as had everyone, had heard Kagura scream as she was killed by Amily's attack, and the villagers had poured out of their huts cheering and praising the angel that Kami had sent them, Kagome smiled brightly as did the rest of her friends, but then a scream from a child had silenced everyone and they all turned their heads to see the whirl wind heading to wards the kitsune child, Kagome's eyes opened in terror, and she watched as Inuyasha began running towards Shippo at full speed trying to save Shippo, but Inuyasha had stopped when a blur of red and grey blue streaked towards Shippo and shoved him out of harms way, Kagome watched as the tornado picked up Amily and swirled her around like a rag doll and through the howling wind Kagome herd the sickening snap of the girls wings. Everyone watched in silenced horror as the twister carried Amily over the cliff. The twister disappeared bringing Amily over the cliff. Kagome screamed as she watched her friend drop from the sky.
"Inuyasha!"
He looked at her and the nodded he raced to the edged and jumped over, using his claws to keep himself from totally losing control as he tried desperately to catch the injured and broken girl. His heart raced, and even though he would never admit it to anyone he felt great fear at losing this strange girl that had suddenly come into their lives only a few short weeks ago. He retracted his claws a little making himself move faster his free hand reaching out to grab anything he could, the gold string on her wings came lose and a piece whipped behind her, Inuyasha made a mad dash for it, it touched the tip of his fingers and Inuyasha managed to grip it tightly, his body jerked as he felt her weight pull the golden string and he winced as he head one of her wings snap again, but then the String pulled loose and Amily began to fall once again, Inuyasha cried out in frustration as he completely pulled his claws out of the cliff face. He let himself free fall, he saw her falling farther and farther away, and he winced when she hit a jutting rock.
'Come on! Damn it to hell!'
He though to himself. The rapids below were racing close to them and she was too close to them, he made one last attempt to grab her but the same jutting rock that had hit her snagged his kimono jerking him to a halt, he watched in horror as Amily hit the rapids and was swallowed up by them, he watched as he saw part of her kimono surface for a seconds before disappearing under the raging waters, he reached over to his left side and using his claws he cut himself free from the rock, he dropped for a second before he dug his claws into the rock and stopped himself, he began to climb back up, he pulled himself onto the rocky ledge and he roared in rage, he felt something brush against his foot, stopping his cry of rage he looked down and felt a lump in his throat as he saw two of Amily's feathers on the rock, the wind picked up the feathers and was about to carry them away, but before the wind could he grabbed them and held on to the feathers tightly, he looked up the to edge of the cliff and began to climb back up. Inuyasha was nearly at the top when he looked up and saw Kagome looking down at him with hopeful eyes, he looked away as he couldn't bare to watch the hope in her eyes fade away as he pulled himself up to the top with out their friend.
Kagome waited for Inuyasha to bring her friend back, hopped he would, as did everyone else with baited breaths. Seconds turned into minutes and Kagome began to tremble, then she herd grunting and ran to the edge just in time to see Inuyasha climb over the edge, alone. She looked up at him her eyes filling with tears, she then looked down as he lifted his hand and opened in his hand where two of Amily's feather's, with shaking hands she took them from the hanyou and clutched them to her chest. Inuyasha caught her as Kagome's legs gave out form under her and gently lowered he to the ground, silent tears ran down her cheeks. Everyone watched on crying tears of their own, as the angel that had been delivered to them was taken away.