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Chapter 6: The Red Queen, the White Queen, and Me!
To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said
'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head.
Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be
Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me!'
As the last bit of Raven's and Inuyasha's souls disappeared, the mirror began to glow crimson. Kanna held out the mirror and let go, leaving it floating in the air before them. The crimson light grew brighter, and the mirror expanded. A strong wind came hurtling past the group creating a noise like someone crying out in pain. With the wind came dark clouds which boomed and glowed with thunder and lightning.
The mirror kept growing until it was at least ten times larger than our heroes. The surface swirled with the dark light, making it a large foreboding beacon of malevolence before them. They stared at the mirror, and a few flinched as a cacophony of screeches came thundering through the mirror. Before any could ask what had made the horrid noise, a large creature flew through the swirl of red. It slightly resembled the pterodactyl Beast Boy so often turned into except it had a few distinct differences. Where Beast Boy's pterodactyl was huge, this was colossal! Translucent black wings spread from it, shining eerily from the light behind them. It flung its massive head back and let out another screech that made everyone's teeth chatter.
"What the hell is that?" Cyborg screamed over the moaning wind.
"It's a daemon! The portal's been opened, and it's come through the portal!" Miroku yelled in response.
Robin barked orders, "Sango, Cyborg, take Inuyasha and Raven to a safe place! Kagome, Miroku, Sesshomaru, fight!"
Sesshomaru charged toward the beast. He jumped high and attempted to slice the hide of the creature with his claws. The daemon let out a screech-like roar and flew higher. Once it had reached a certain height, it came charging back down and clawed at Sesshomaru. The dog-daemon was thrown into the wall, bleeding profusely.
While the daemon was occupied, Kagome, Miroku, and Robin watched as more creatures came through the portal. A flock of tall, gangly daemons staggered out of the crimson light. There skin was the color of dried blood and the grass curled away and died as they approached. A blast of blue energy was shot at a few, and a large boomerang came plunging toward another group. Robin turned around to see Sango and Cyborg racing toward him. Cyborg, seeing the look on Robin's face, assured his friend that they had put Raven and Inuyasha in a safe place. Robin turned back to the mass of daemons and saw that, though a few were down, the mass had been completely unfazed by the attack. Kagome loaded her bow with an arrow and shot it at one of the daemons. The arrow pierced its flesh and the daemon fell. It was quickly trampled by more daemons coming through the portal.
A few small creatures resembling giant spiders scuttled out and began to feast on the flesh of the fallen daemons. More spiders scampered toward the Robin, Cyborg, Sango, Miroku and Kagome. Robin threw some bird-a-rags that sliced a few in half. Miroku opened his wind tunnel and sucked some in, and Sango killed some with her boomerang. Cyborg and Kagome were attacking the taller daemons with sonic blasts and arrows. Sesshomaru, though bleeding, was still fighting the large winged creature, that is until another joined it.
More daemons charged through the portal. They were different shapes and sizes, but they were all blood-thirsty. It seemed as if every boogeyman and monster in the history of the imagination (and a few that no mind, however twisted, could think up) was there. The daemons that resembled humans were the most frightening. There were beautiful woman with huge majestic wings. One would think they were angels until one saw the long blood-stained fangs and piercing red eyes. Others looked like normal people but with twisted and contorted faces. Some only barely resembled the bodies of humans with dark vermilion skin with the heads of wolves.
Robin took a quick look around before exclaiming, "There's too many of them! Fall back!" The others obeyed his orders.
"We need a plan!" Miroku yelled, closing off his wind tunnel.
"We need to close the portal," Kagome added.
"How?"
Robin thought for a moment. "We have to break the mirror, right?" he asked slicing off the heads of a few approaching daemons.
"But it's not a mirror anymore. How can we break a portal?"
"There is still a back to the mirror, though," Sango put in.
"Right," Robin agreed. "Kagome and I will head to the back! You guys distract the daemons!" Everyone nodded in agreement before charging back into the fray.
Robin launched his grappling-hook and grabbed Kagome around the waist as it pulled him up. Normally, Kagome would have either blushed or punched him, but under the circumstances…
Robin and Kagome flew over the battle, swinging on a line suspended to a tall tree. A daemon tried to jump and grab them, but Kagome kicked it hard, causing it to fall back into the mass. The two quickly landed on the outside of the brawl. They both ran to the back of the mirror where they found Kanna, smiling as she watched the mayhem. The crimson light reflected off her white dress and hair, illuminating her. She seemed ethereal and wicked at the same time, like a fallen angel. The fight reflected in her white eyes, harshly clashing and yet eerily complementing the glee on her face. It was the most frightening thing either had ever seen.
"Kagome, go! I'll take care of Kanna," Robin said. At the sound of his voice the tiny pale daemon turned. A look of rage replaced her expression of happiness. Her eyes narrowed, and she pointed a white hand to Robin. A group of daemons detached themselves from the crowd and ran toward Robin. The teen pulled out his staff, prepared to fight.
Kagome, meanwhile, had slipped off and was now directly behind the mirror. She pulled out an arrow and positioned it on her bow. Whispering a prayer, she released the arrow. As it sped toward the back of the mirror, a pink aura surrounded it. The arrow struck the mirror causing a tiny crack, and the crack spread. Pink light shown through the crack which grew ever larger as the light brightened. Soon the pink light had engulfed the entire mirror, and with a blinding flash and an unbearable shriek, the mirror disappeared.
A hiss was heard as the cloud cover dissipated and the once fearsome daemons evanesced. Our heroes looked to each other and then looked for Kanna, but it seemed she had escaped as the evil of the mirror was detroyed.
Kagome walked over to where the enormous mirror had disappeared. In its place was a large scorch mark and the original tiny silver mirror with gold engravings. Kagome reached down to touch the mirror. As her hand caressed the surface, it released what sounded like a satisfied sigh. Five thick clouds of mist flew out of the mirror and sped away in different directions.
The group quickly ran to where Sango and Cyborg had stashed Raven and Inuyasha. The two were awake. Inuyasha looked annoyed and Raven held her head in her hands. Kagome rushed to Inuyasha and threw her arms around him. Cyborg and Robin did the same to Raven.
"Oh, Inuyasha!" Kagome cried. "I thought I'd lost you!"
"Well you didn't," Inuyasha answered attempting to sound annoyed, "so get off." He made no move to shrug off Kagome's hug though, the others noticed.
"Oh, God, Raven," Cyborg sighed. "Don't scare us like that."
Raven turned red under the hugs. After she had calmed them down, Raven's face split into a big smirk. "Robin," she said. "I bet Starfire's awake."
Robin broke his hug on her and looked up into her face. He had a large dumb-looking grin when he said, "You'll teleport us there because you're so great, right?" Raven actually laughed.
The Titans and the Inuyasha gang arrived in the village to find Kaede, Shippo, Beast Boy, Rin, and Starfire having tea while Beast Boy and Shippo regaled what they knew of the story to Rin and Starfire. Robin ran right in and swept Starfire up into his arms before she even knew what was happening. As she was about to greet him, Robin gave her a very passionate kiss. Shippo squealed in glee, and Inuyasha, who had just entered glared at the couple. They broke apart when the need for air became too much and just stood staring at each other.
When Sesshomaru entered the hut, Rin ran into his arms. "Master Sesshomaru!" she squealed as he pulled her into a large hug. Robin and Starfire smiled at the little girl who had been reunited with her surrogate father.
Raven dashed in after Sesshomaru. She ran straight to Beast Boy and gave him such a bone-crushing hug, it rivaled those of Starfire's. "Oh, God," was all she could say. Cyborg came in and put his hand on her shoulder. She loosened her grip on the changeling but kept her hands protectively on his shoulders.
"Hey, grass-stain. Don't leave us like that again," Cyborg said. "What would Rae and I do without our annoying little brother?" Beast Boy laughed and Raven smirked.
A voice punctuated the heartfelt reunion. "So what happened?" Shippo asked. Everyone smiled before jumping into the story.
A/N: Next chapter is already posted! Was this chapter too fast-paced?