A/N: Before anyone gets any ideas this is NOT a BB/Rae fic! It may seem like it, but it's not.
Disclaimer: I don't own TT or Inuyasha or Alice.
Chapter 4: Curiouser and Curiouser
Raven awoke to find the Titans and the Inuyasha gang staring at her. Raven's eyes gazed around the room until they reached Beast Boy. All of the sudden Raven jumped up and threw her arms around the changeling.
"Raven!" Beast Boy yelled as he tried to squirm out of her grip. "What's wrong with you!"
Raven pulled away and stared into Beast Boy's dark green eyes. Beast Boy looked down; her gaze made him uncomfortable. "Beast Boy," she said in an oddly soothing voice, "you're next."
Beast Boy's eyes grew large, and he jerked away from the empath. "Wh-what?" he stammered.
Robin spoke up, "Are you sure?"
Raven nodded reluctantly. "I did a spell to see who was next-"
Robin interrupted, "Sesshomaru told us that."
Raven went on, "The ever-changing soul, it's to be taken literally. As Beast Boy's body changes into different animals, the physical shape of his soul changes as well."
"Th-that can't be true. You're wrong!" Beast Boy said almost pleadingly. Raven could see fear in his eyes.
"It's okay, BB," Cyborg said, trying to comfort his friend. "We'll protect you."
"We will," agreed Robin. "We need a plan of action. I'm going to have Sango, Cyborg-"
"Wait, wait, wait!" Inuyasha yelled. "I'm not going to let the kid in tights order me around."
Robin turned hot with anger. "You think you can fight me, dog boy?" Inuyasha and Robin then began a fierce glaring match.
"Stop!" two voices shouted at once. Everyone turned to Raven and Kagome.
"This isn't solving anything."
"We aren't helping Beast Boy by fighting."
Kagome turned to Inuyasha. "Inuyasha, let's hear Robin's idea before we decide we hate it." Inuyasha grumbled acceptance and a few curses under his breath.
Next, Raven turned to Robin. "Fighting amongst is not going to help us beat Kanna and get Starfire's soul back." Robin looked down, ashamed. "Tell us your plan."
As quick as a flash, Robin hid his grief and went back into leader mode. "We can have Sango, Inuyasha, and I be the first line of defense. Next will be Kagome, Miroku, and Cyborg. Then Sesshomaru and Raven will guard Beast Boy inside a safe place." Inuyasha snorted at his brother's petty job until Robin continued. "Sesshomaru is the fastest and the strongest. He will be able to distract Kanna while Raven gets Beast Boy to a safe place. Hopefully, Kanna won't break through. The second line of defense will give the first line a bit of time to recuperate if Kanna makes it to the second line. Once we've regained a bit of strength, we'll join the second line."
A voice from the corner spoke, "I think it's a good plan."
Inuyasha frowned at his brother. "You only like it 'cause Robin said you were the best."
Sesshomaru struck back in monotone, "You only dislike it because Robin said I was the best."
"Feh." Inuyasha wasn't about to be humiliated by useless grudges. It was a good plan, and it might work. "Fine, let's do it."
All of the Titans and the Inuyasha gang were in their positions. Raven, Beast Boy, and Sesshomaru sat in a cellar beneath a separate cottage from that where Starfire's and Rin's soulless bodies lay. Beast Boy was shaking. Raven was being uncommonly soothing. The half-daemon held her green friend in her arms and repeated over and over again, "I'm not going to let her take you." Raven, though, was worried herself. She had felt Kanna's magic; it was strong. Raven forced herself to be calm, though, for Beast Boy's sake. She could not imagine how frightened he was.
Sesshomaru sat opposite the teens. He checked and rechecked his weapons, pretending he couldn't see Raven and Beast Boy.
Above ground inside the cottage, Kagome, Miroku, and Cyborg were ready for battle. Kagome was clutching her bow tightly in one hand. She had an arrow in the other. Slung onto her back was a quiver filled with the rest of her arrows. Miroku was holding his cursed arm with determination. Cyborg stood resolutely, waiting for the attack.
Surrounding the cottage was the first line of defense: Sango, Inuyasha, and Robin.
Sango's head jerked at the slightest sound, her arm ready to fling her boomerang at the attacker.
Robin stood in his fight position, ready to play leader and protect his teammates and save Starfire.
Inuyasha stared forward, unwavering. He kept thinking the same thought: I can't let Kanna get to Kagome.
After some time of standing and waiting, a white figure broke the line of trees on the hill. Inuyasha saw her first. "Sango, Robin, it's Kanna."
Kanna walked forward and stopped at the top of the hill. She stood there for a few moments before her mirror turned black. The surface began to shimmer and a long snake-like head protruded from the mirror.
"Have you ever seen something come out of her mirror before?" Robin asked.
"Just you," Inuyasha replied.
The entity continued to flow out of the mirror until a huge black snake stood on the hill. Its white eyes blazed with hunger, and it slithered at an incredible speed toward the tiny group. "Get ready," Inuyasha and Robin said simultaneously.
When the snake was about ten feet in front of the group, Robin yelled "Go!" Sango threw her gigantic boomerang toward the creature. It hit the beast's neck squarely. The snake reared up as the boomerang returned to Sango, and the group watched in horror as the large gash disappeared before their eyes. The snake's tail came lashing toward Sango, but Robin knocked her out of the way. Inuyasha lifted his sword high in the air and yelled, "Windscar!" Bright blades of wind thrashed the snake into a thousand tiny pieces, but Inuyasha gasped as the pieces twitched and reassembled themselves into the large snake. Robin leapt into the air and threw five flash discs into the snake's face. While it was dazed, Robin pulled out some explosives and threw them right at the snakes head. Quickly, the beast retreated to the hill to escape the explosives. Sango, Robin, and Inuyasha followed. What our heroes didn't notice, though, was that Kanna was gone.
Inside the hut, tension was high as the group listened to the battle raging outside. The door began to creek open, and Cyborg ran to it. "Do you guys need-" but before he could finish he was thrown back by a blast of white energy, and Kanna entered the cottage. Miroku growled and held out his cursed hand. Flinging off the prayer beads, he yelled, "Wind tunnel!" The great vacuum was exposed, pulling in everything in its path, except Kanna. Her hair flew wildly, but she stood in the doorway, completely still, as if she was a statue nailed to the ground. "Damn!" Miroku muttered as he put away his wind tunnel.
Now it was Kagome's turn. Kagome readied her bow with a sacred arrow and aimed it right at Kanna. She then released it and the glowing arrow zoomed toward the tiny pale daemon. Kanna didn't move. As the arrow was about to strike her face, she calmly lifted her mirror which absorbed the arrow.
"It's coming back!" Kagome yelled as the face of the mirror began to glow. Both she and Miroku ran out of the arrows path, but when it was level with them, it exploded and energy knocked Kagome and Miroku to the floor. Now all three warriors were out cold.
In the cellar of the cottage, Beast Boy still sat huddled next to Raven while Sesshomaru checked his weapons once again. Beast Boy began to whimper as loud bangs and yelling were heard from above. After a few minutes, the door in the ceiling of the cellar opened. Kanna floated down through the hole. Raven and Sesshomaru stood and took battle stances. "Get him out of here," Sesshomaru whispered to Raven.
Raven pulled up her hood and her eyes glowed white. "Azarath, Metrion, Zin- ahh!" A long white tendril flew out of Kanna's mirror and lashed at Raven, smacking her to the ground. The tendril wrapped around her ankle and started to pull her toward the mirror. Sesshomaru rushed forward and used his claws to free her. Raven rose into the air. Some barrels of seed began to glow with black energy and in a moment they were soaring through the air toward Kanna. More tendrils appeared from the mirror and knocked the barrels out of the way. Sesshomaru ran forward, his claws gleaming. He slashed at the tendrils and fought his way to the tiny daemon. She dodged most of his attacks. When his claws aimed for the mirror, she guarded it with her arm. Sesshomaru's claws cut deep into her flesh, but a moment later her wounds were healed by white light. In the chaos of claws and light, Raven had managed to return to Beast Boy. She wrapped her cloak around him, muttered her famous words, and they disappeared in a flash of dark energy.
Kanna stepped back from Sesshomaru and examined the place where her quarry vanished. Then she too disappeared.
Outside the hut the large snake battling Inuyasha, Sango, and Robin, splashed to the ground as if it was water, creating puddles of thick blackish goop.
In a nearby forest, a large bird made of dark energy soared over the trees. It soon found a clearing and landed, transforming back into Raven and Beast Boy. Raven sat the distraught boy on a rock and stood. As she turned around, she noticed a white light. Immediately after she noticed this, a large white tendril slammed her hard into the ground. She looked up to see white mist floating out of Beast Boy into the mirror. "Raven!" he called before the last bit of mist left him and he slumped to the ground.
"The ever-changing soul experiences the lives of all." And with that, Kanna was gone.
A/N: I know Beast Boy is kind of wimpy in this chapter, but he's afraid that his soul is going to be stolen, and he's only thirteen or fourteen.