Chapter 7

Images of the Past:

Moon Light Warrior

The witch demon sat patiently on her oaken throne, with one hand propping up her head, the other tapping lightly on her arm rest, she was waiting for the alteration to be complete.

Inuyasha laid motionless on the floor his body sprawled in an ungainly way, the only indication that he even still lived was the steady rise and fall of his chest.

He's almost mine, his human form can't fight against the tainted magic in the neckless. Now all I have to do is wait for the girl...

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Kagome and the group headed out a couple hours latter. Birds were beginning to sing so they knew that dawn was approaching even though it was still dark out.

Sheesh, this night seems to last forever, thought Kagome sleepily to herself. She closed her eyes and let out a huge yawn.

Sango turned around from ahead and glared at her, "You wouldn't be so tired if you had woken me up." Miroku and Shippo both nodding their heads in agreement.

Kagome hung her head ashamed. "I meant to wake you up,"she lied "it must have slipped my mind."

Sango just ignored her and stomped on ahead. She mumbled something incoherent under her breath, but Kagome couldn't tell what she was saying. She did though hear the word "promise" and "useless", so she thought that she must have been talking about her.

She sighed and patted Kirara on the head who had been walking beside her since they had started walking. Kirara growled under her breath and looked around. Kagome wondered what had been bothering her because she had been acting that way for some time now. The cat demon would just stop suddenly and sniff the air, or she would growl and look around. Kagome wondered what could be making her so suspicious of her surroundings, then she felt it also, that unnerving feeling that someone or something was watching her from behind. This was the same feeling that she had before, she then remembered the creature that had bounded across the path that was just feet from her. The hair stood up on the back of her nape. She wrapped her arms around her and shivered from the feeling of unease that clenched her stomach.

She looked down the path ahead of her and noticed that the trees were thinning and pretty soon they would arrive at the base of the mountain.

Hold on Inuyasha I'm coming. Just hang in there for a little longer.

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The catamount watched eagerly from a nearby bush that hid everything except the creatures eyes that shined from the glow of the stars. It's upper lip twitching from the restrained anger that tried to consume it.

It watched hungrily as the girl and her companions walked along the path in front of it. The catamount almost had the girl earlier that night but right before it sprung she had turned around. It remembered the way she had stared at the bush that had kept him hidden. The look in her eyes told him that she had sensed him, even through his protective shield. Just remembering seeing the bow and arrows angered it more, but it didn't matter though, soon it would all be over.

I will kill that insolent girl with my own paws, I shall taste her blood and watch her squirm mercilessly as she dies slowly. I will get my revenge...

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Kagome stepped out from the trees and was met not by the base of the mountain but by an arch. She wondered what stone it was made out of because she had never seen anything like it before.

"What is it," asked Sango, she also was surprised to see it.

"I don't know Sango, but I sense something about it." Miroku stepped beside Sango his eyes following the cycle of the moon that was engraved into the face of the blue stone. He had heard of something of a blue stone that guarded an unknown evil inside. He walked up to the arch and ran his hand gently over it. The stone was cold, he snatched his hand back, no that wasn't the right word for it, it was freezing. Miroku rubbed his hand absentmindedly, he remembered the story now, he stared at the engraving of the new moon on top:

It was said that long ago a demon that went by the name of Karanome came to power. She would wonder through the streets of nearby towns singing, her voice was so pure that people believed it was the work of the gods. Young men that overheard the demon were instantly captured by her voice and would stop whatever they were doing and follow behind her dreamily.

Their wives would yell, throw things at them, beg them, and even jumped on them, but they would be just tossed aside like a used rag. There was nothing they could do to stop them they would collapse in the streets as tears overtook them. Many children were made fatherless, and wives widows fore they never saw their father or husband again.

Then one foggy night when the moon was black a mysterious and ferocious warrior appeared out of nowhere near the border of the forest that surrounded the town.

Her hair was a black contrast that hung over the milky white armor that she wore, the armor seemed to glow like the rays of the moon. It was hard to differentiate the warrior from the mist fore her form seemed to ebb and flow along with it.

Emerald green eyes scanned the village streets and locked onto the demon whom had already gathered her usual amount of followers. Eyes narrowing, she grabbed the ivory hilt of her sword and came at the witch demon. There was no sound as her feet pounded the ground beneath her.

Expecting the attack the demon summoned the men to attack the approaching warrior of the forest.

The warrior danced easily around the men trying not to kill them. The ones that got too close received a swipe across the temple from the butt of her saber and fell limply to the ground. She didn't kill them though, they we're just simply knocked out.

The witch demon seeing the distance closing between them raised her hands, blue fire engulfed them, the magic shot from her finger tips.

Not having enough time to dodge the fire she let it hit her staight on. She staggered back from the power of the impact, she looked down but saw no signs of a wound. The milky white armor that held the rays of the moon had deflected the fire. Her mouth opened in a silent cry and with one swift movement she brought her saber up and ran back at the witch.

The battle ragged on for months and many people died from flying debis that was caused from buildings being blown up, but when it was finaly over the warrior of the forest trapped the witch demon in the depth of the mountain and placed a warding outside the entrance to keep the demon in.

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"Miroku, Miroku! Snap out of it," yelled Kagome while taking him by the shoulders and shaking him. His hand was still on the arch and he seemed to have gone to another place when he touched the stone. His body had gone ridged and his eyes had rolled to the back of his head.

When he didn't respond Sango walked over to help Kagome.

"Let me try, maybe I can knock some since into him."

Kagome gladdly stepped away, "By all means, it seems I can't do anything," she crossed her arms while shaking her head. She knew exactly what Sango had in mind, and sure enough Sango's hand raised up over her head.

Putting her whole body into it she brought her hand down across Miroku's left cheek there was a loud crack and Kagome wondered if maybe, just maybe Sango might have hit him to hard this time. Nah, she thought to her self.

Miroku rocked back on the balls of his feet, his hand slidding off the cool face of the stone. He slowly came back to his sences, "W-What happened?", he stammered, he blinked his eyes tring to get them to focus. Pain shot through the side of his face, he rubbed his jaw and flexed it. The left side of his jaw popped and cracked causing a stinging pain to ring through his head.

"What the heck happened to me, and why does my jaw hurt?", he whispered to himself. When his eyes finally focused he saw Sango standing in front of him with a smug look on her face. He noticed that she was also rubbing her hand and he wondered why, then it dawned on him.

He glared at her, "You slapped me!", he yelled, she had never slapped him this hard before. "Why would you do such a thing, it's not like I touched you or anything!"

Sango smiled at him, she had never seen him so angry and it made him look kind of cute... Wait scratch that, what am I thinking, this isn't the time for that..

"You went into some kind of trance when you touched the stone, your whole body went rigged. Kagome tried to shake you out of it but it didn't seem to work, so I tried my own technique, and it worked."

Rubbing his jaw absentmindely he stared off into space, Yes, he thought, yes, I remember now, it's all coming back... He replayed the scene in his head,... the witch, the young men, mist, a warrior in armor that seemed to glow with the beams of the moon, the fight, and the arch...

The arch, his head snapped up to the stone arch in front of him, it was the same exact one from his dream, if you could call it that. If Inuyasha was in there he was in huge trouble.

"Come on," he said while waving them on ahead, "we need to get in there."

Kagome's eyes glazed over, "Inuyasha", she whispered, "we're coming."

With that they ran past the arch and to the pitch black cave oblivious to the warning buzz that rang through their bodies as they passed under the blue stoned arch that loomed over their heads.

(A/N) Sorry it took so long to update, but I have been doing my story on my laptop at school and we had to turn them in. I didn't get to finish so I have to do it on my dad's computer. Just for the 411 it might take a while to finish the story, but don't worry I'll try to do it as quick as I can. Keep reading 'cause there's going to be a twist and it's going to really knock your socks off..

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