The Daughters of Cerberus
Chapter 1: Cerberus divides
Yumi's POV:
'Ow…damn, that HURT! Well hell, here I come…' I struggled to open my eyes, thinking I would find myself surrounded by black flames and satins, but when my eyes focused I found myself in a field of grass surrounded with flowers and trees. "That can't be right," I said to no one, my body in pain as I attempted to stand. I rose in pain and find the flowers before me to be quite real and the grass beneath my feet just as real. 'I can't be in heaven… no way, NO HOW!' I began dusting myself of dirt when I poked myself, REALLY HARD. I yelped and looked to my hands, my eyes widened in disbelief. 'WHAT THE HELL? I'm not supposed to have claws! Not real ones at least…' The claws I inherited from my adoptive parents were gone, but my nails were ACTUAL claws that had dark blue glitter on them. I put a hand to my back in search of my katana, it was gone! I put my hands to my hips and felt the katana handle at my waist. HOW DID IT GET THERE? It was all too freaky. Suddenly, I smelt something familiar- 'wait a second… SMELL!' It smelt like the shampoo Yuka, Kiki and I wear. I followed my nose through the field, through the thick shrub and forest until I came to a waterfall. I looked up and down the waterfall, wondering where the smell was coming from. My nose pointed me towards the middle of the waterfall. I climbed up the jagged sides of the cliff until I came to the middle of the raging waterfall. I stalked towards a cave entrance, my senses telling me to beware of creatures in the cave. Using the buttonhook maneuver, I poked my head round the cave entrance… I couldn't believe my eyes… Yuka and Kiki were lying on fur mattresses surrounded by men that smelt like dogs! On top of that, they ALL had tails! Including Kiki and Yuka! Kiki had a black tail that had two brown stripes at the end, Yuka's tail was purple with a black underbelly. I froze on the spot. 'Wait a second… if they have tails then…' I instantly turned around to find a fluffy tail behind me, brown with a black underbelly. I began shaking when I heard the men inside the cave advance towards the cave entrance. I scaled the cliff, digging my claws into the cliff side, until I was above the cave entrance on a large ledge. The wolf men came into view shortly after. My heightened senses picked up the conversations below.
"It's gone, Kouga!" a man with a crazy Mohawk yelled,
"No… it's still here…" said a guy with a large ponytail, who I assumed to be Kouga. The said man began sniffing the air, he ordered his men to scout the cliffs, while they were occupied, I crawled into the cave like spider man with claws and flipped down to the rocks when it was safe. I began shaking Kiki.
"Kiki," I whispered, she didn't wake, "Kiki!" I whispered a little louder, Kiki groaned and opened her eyes. I breathed a sigh of relief, "Oh thank god…"
"uh… Yumi?" Kiki questioned as she attempted to stand. I lent a hand and hoisted her up. The first thing she notices is that my hands had claws and my katana was at my waist, "What the hell happened to you?" she questioned. I explained as I woke Yuka. Yuka read my mind for the answers and curled into a ball on the floor. She was scared, very scared. I pointed out that both of them had claws like me… then I did something I REALLY shouldn't have done…
"These stupid claws, stupid tails, STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!" Kiki and Yuka froze.
"W-what?" Kiki stuttered, I repeated the sentence slowly,
"These stupid claws, stupid tails- oh… did I forget to mention that?" I turned around and wagged my tail. Kiki was speechless, Yuka gasped. "That's not all…" I walked behind the two and yanked on their tails. They yelped and grabbed their tails, stroking them out of reflex. They froze and looked to their tails…
"AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEE!" Kiki and Yuka wailed through the cave. Suddenly, a large breeze filled the cave and I hid on the cave roof. Kiki and Yuka looked up and I put a finger over my lips to shush them. I could sense their fear and shock, but I didn't want to risk my life. Yuka nodded and whispered to Kiki. Kiki then nodded and looked to the cave entrance, shielding her face as she forwarded to the entrance.
Yuka's POV:
Kiki and I advanced to the cave entrance, my thoughts were on Yumi and her safety… what if she's caught? I frowned but continued forward as I heard Yumi's thoughts echo in my head, 'Yuka, don't worry about me, you and Kiki GET OUT OF HERE!' I put on my firm face and continued towards the cave entrance, the blistering wind had vanished. Kiki and I halted before we exited, we smelt something furry and dog like. "Wait here" I telepathically whisper to Kiki. I put my fingers to my temples and began tracing for wandering thoughts…
'Stupid bitches, falling right into our grasp…' I detected from a guy with a baldish hair do,
'Who was that girl, I smelt her earlier, the scent seems stronger the closer we are to the cave…' I hear from a white haired Mohawk man.
'They must've meant Yumi' I hear Kiki think.
'How DARE that bitch even CONSIDER coming near MY territory…' I detected from a man with long hair and strange powers emitting from his legs. I then lowered her fingers, having told Kiki everything I heard. Kiki nodded and we looked for our weapons. Not finding them, I search another person's thoughts… our bags, weapons and accessories were on the opposite side of the cave. I telepathically whisper to Yumi, telling her to retrieve our stuff and hand them to us, she agrees and we get our things. With all three of us now at the cave entrance, we draw our weapons and prepare ourselves for a fight. Kiki holds up three fingers and the count down began…
Three…
Two…
ONE!
We were about to exit when the gust of wind picked up again. Yumi sniffed the air, she said it was clear. We lowered our weapons and exited the cave with caution.
"What were those things?" Kiki inquires, Yumi shrugs,
"Come on guys, I don't like this…" Yumi adds after a small silence
"Don't like what?" Kiki inquires
"This odd feeling… that we just fell into a trap!" Yumi and I yelled as Yumi drew her katana and pointed it above the cave where the wolf men were waiting. I bared my claws and sword and took a fighting stance while Kiki drew her Sais. The leader sneered and smirked,
"Stupid bitches…" ok, this comment just got me pissed, I slowly put my sword away, earning a 'What are you doing?' and a 'YUKA! What the hell are you doing?' from the girls. I stand still for a moment before charging at the guy at an unimaginable speed. Before he could blink, I knocked him to the other side of the cliff. I stayed in a punched position before slowly standing up straight. Everyone froze. I was amazed myself, but I had business to take care of. The man struggled to stand, he was seriously pissed, but not as pissed as me.
"NO ONE GETS AWAY WITH CALLING ME OR MY FAMILY STUPID!" I yell at him, fury in my eyes. The other wolf men began whispering something about how unbelievable I was and saying how I was going to get it. They soon backed off so there was a clear strip of land for the leader and me to fight. The wind suddenly picked up again and the wolf man was incased in a whirlwind. He advanced towards me, I just stood there, unimpressed. He was a centimeter away from me when I appeared behind him and pushed him to the ground. He fell, flat faced, to the rock and I stepped on his back as a sign of dominance. Yumi and Kiki had climbed up at this point and were cheering me on,
"Alright Yuka!"
"Go Yuka…" Kiki remarked, striking an impressed pose an admiring my speed. The man below my feet shuffled and kicked me backwards with a flip (kicking me in the back while he flips up). I feel to the ground with an OOF and he was now on top of me. The men cheered,
"KOUGA, KOUGA!" so… his name is Kouga… I'm guessing he's the big shot… pft, pathetic! I performed his same move and held my sword to his neck so if he pulled the same stunt, he would be headless. Kouga decided to flip forward this time and head butt me. We then threw numerous kicks and punches at each other, by this point, I was impressed with his fighting. He almost kicked me with a machine gun kick when I caught his leg and threw him to a wall, he recovered quickly and pushed off the wall before he could make contact with it and punched my right arm. I too recovered quickly and used my left arm to strike his back. After an hour of fighting like this, I was getting tired. So was Kouga. Yumi, Kiki and the others had gotten bored and were now talking. Damn, just when I thought I could scare people…
Kiki's POV:
Yuka and Kouga have been at it for an hour now. Yumi and I had struck up a conversation with the wolf men. They explained to us that they were a wolven tribe and that Kouga was their alpha. They also explained that they were enemies with this Naraku fellow.
"Naraku? Who's he?" I inquire, the men silence for a moment,
"You mean you haven't heard of Naraku?" Yumi and I shake our heads and the Mohawk guy, Hakkaku, sighed. He explained this Naraku fellow to us, I was intrigued and a little disgusted. Once he was done, Ginta explained Kouga's little love problem. Yumi sighed,
"So he's a hopeless romantic in a unilateral relationship?" Both men nodded,
"…No comment…" I state, the men nod,
"He's obsessed with the girl. She dresses a lot like you three." Ginta comments,
"What do you mean?" I ask
"Well… she says she's from the future and stuff like that." Hakkaku comments… Yumi and I were speechless…
"Ok… what year is it? On top of that… where are we?" Yumi asks, Ginta and Hakkaku shrug.
"This is Japan… I don't know what year it is… I think it's 1506…"
SILENCE…
"W-w-w-w-what?" I stutter with Yumi,
"I think it's 1506"
"We're in Japan." Yumi confirms, both nod. Yumi and I glare at each other.
"So THAT'S it!" Yumi summarizes. I understand, but the wolf men are confused. I continued for her
"So when we were shot we were sent here!" I think we just lost the wolf tribe…
"Eh!" Ginta and Hakkaku ask, we ignored them and continued our conversation
"But why here? Why not Hawaii or Australia? And why 500 years in the past?"
"I don't know." We stopped and began to think. We had just about lost everyone at this stage, even Kouga and Yuka stopped fighting to listen to the conversation.
"You're from the future too?" Kouga asks, looking at all three of us. Yuka nods, "Wait… you were shot? What's that?"
"Basically it's when a small piece of metal called a bullet is fired from a metal case called a gun. The pressure builds up and the bullet is shot at an unimaginable speed," Yuka paused so everyone could catch up, "Bullets are shot at such an immense speed, you hear the sound of the gun fire once the bullet is over a meter away. The bullet's speed is so fast, it can penetrate skin, even bone, easily." The wolf men froze. Yuka continued, "Yumi, Kiki and I were shot, I was shot in the chest,"
"I was shot in the stomach." Yumi added.
"I was shot in the shoulder." I added. Kouga spoke up,
"Wouldn't you be dead?" all three of us nodded,
"That's why we're confused. We should be dead, but we're living, breathing and standing in Japan, 500 years in the past." Kouga and the others froze, confused and amazed.
"Alright, seeing as you three have no place to go, you will stay with us for the time being," Kouga ordered, the other men stood, "alright, let's move out." With that, the others went in search for food while Hakkaku grabbed me, Ginta grabbed Yumi, and Kouga grabbed Yuka and dragged us into the cave. We were settled down on a fur bed and the three disappeared. All three of us were left there to… do absolutely nothing…
'This has got to be the WEIRDEST day in my life.'
"You said it." …Yuka… not now…