Disclaimer: I do not own the Inu-gang! But the Dragon Demon is my character!
Kazel: The Dragon Demon (It's pronounced: Ka-zil people! Stress the E like it was an I)
Smoke and Ash
"Damn! It's freezing up here!" –Inuyasha.
Kagome rolled her eyes at Inuyasha's ten-thousandth complaint about the temperature. Maybe if he wore shoes once in a while he wouldn't be so cold…
"Of course its cold, Inuyasha. We're on top of a mountain. I told you to wear some kind of coat or something." –Kagome.
Kagome, Inuyasha, and friends were currently somewhere near top of a mountain, and obviously enough snow was falling in drifts. This was why Inuyasha had been complaining for the past few hours.
"Hey, Kagome! You should come take a look at this!" Shippo called out to them from a few yards ahead.
"What is it Shippo?" –Kagome.
The four others (Inuyasha, Kagome, Sango, and Miroku) all ran up beside Shipo and looked down into an extensive valley below them. "Wow. I didn't know all of this was beyond the mountains." Miroku wondered.
"You didn't?" –Kagome.
"If I had, I would have told you." –Miroku.
"That's not all I see," Sango stated as she pointed to a plume of smoke and ash just visible in the near distance, "It looks like something's burning out there." And they all scrabbled down the side of the mountain to the valley below. Little did they know what they were about to see…
When they reached the source the ash plume in the sky, the friends were shocked to see what awaited their discovery. It appeared to be the charred remains of a small village. Kagome had to look away at the sight of all the carnage left behind by whatever had done this. Bodies of the dead villagers were strewn here and there. Some pieces of human arms, legs, and torsos were draped over bits of fence and walls.
"What happened here…" –Miroku.
"I smell a demon." –Inuyasha got the angry battle look he always got when saying something like that. Then he got down on his hands and knees and sniffed around for any scent left by the suspecting demon or perpetrator (the use of this word in my vocabulary comes from watching too much Law and Order…).
While looking around the remnants of the destroyed village, Shippo stumbled over something on the ground. He fell over it and turned to look into the face of a dead villager which seemed to only have one arm and his neck was still attatched, though barley, to the shoulder! "Ahhh! Help!" Shippo picked himself off the ground and cowered behind one of Kagome's legs, shaking with fright.
"Who would do this?" –Kagome.
"Do you sense anything, Inuyasha?" –Miroku.
"Nah. Nothin'." –Inuyasha. "All I smell is ash and dust. Aaachoo!" Inuyasha's sneeze caused him to fall backwards. All the rest of the group made tiny sweat drops, like anime characters do. They were unaware of the various pairs of eyes watching them from a distance.
I hope you all like the start of this story! It will pick up sooner or later… I hope… Review now please! Hey! I asked politely!