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I only own Kazel!

If anyone thinks otherwise,

I send Kazel to destroy you!

(!ROAR!)

Kazel: The Dragon Demon

Chapter Five:

Kazel: The Dragon Demon

There was a sudden roar, and a wall of flame danced brightly around the travelers. This took everyone, except Inuyasha who had expected an attack, by surprise. As the flames hissed, they became louder with every passing second.

"W-wh-what's going on?" Shippo stuttered in fright. He once again hid behind Kagome's leg.

"I don't know. But I bet its nothing good."

"The demon… its here…" Inuyasha whispered, barely audible above the hissing of the flames, "Demon, show yourself!"

Inuyasha's demand wasn't answered right away, but it was answered, "As you wisssssh…" The demon, wherever it was, did not appear into plain sight within the circle of flame. But a roar echoed from above, and suddenly the dragon demon plummeted from the sky in a dive toward the circle of light on the ground below. Kagome couldn't see what it looked like because it was too far away and moving fast. The flickering of the fire didn't help with seeing the dragon at all.

"Run!" While everyone was running to the side, Kagome noticed that Inuyasha was missing, "Inuyasha!" She looked behind her to find that Inuyasha was gone! What Kagome did not know was that Inuyasha wasn't even inside the circle of fire anymore. He was outside it, with the dragon.

The force of the oncoming dragon slammed into Inuyasha and he was pushed outside of the fire. The only thing protecting the skin on his back from the flames was his clothing, which surprisingly was only scorched slightly. His hair wasn't even touched by the conflagration. Inuyasha didn't even have the time to think about why this happened because the dragon pulled out of the dive and he was flung backwards into the lake. It was a relief to hit the water because the heat of the flame died once he hit the surface. His speed slowed thanks to the layers of water and Inuyasha kicked his way to the surface. Breaking through, Inuyasha noticed that his sword was gone from his hand! 'Crap! I lost the Tetsuiga, and now I'm wet!'

"Looking for thissss…" The dragon appeared, hovering over the water. It was clutching Inuyasha's sword in its claws.

'Not good!' he thought.

"What isss sssscum like you doing in MY domain?" the demon peered down at Inuyasha, who was treading water now because the lake was deep. It seemed to be a whole rainbow of colors in the flickering of the fires on the shore. The scales did not seem to be a definite shape either. But what was apparent was its size. The dragon appeared to be very large, probably as long as two houses standing next to each other and two and a half Inuyashas high.

Inuyasha's response was a jet of water spat from his mouth right in the dragon's face! 'I am not just any kind of scum, dammit! Hey! I'm not even any scum!'

"You will pay for that…" The dragon whipped its tail around and whacked Inuyasha back onto the shore where he slammed through some of the trees at the edge. Miroku used his wind tunnel to dispose of the flames just in time to see Inuyasha flying past and into the trees.

When Kagome saw what happened she shouted, "Inuyasha!" She ran forward, pulling out her bow and an arrow as she ran.

A few seconds after he landed amid a pile of trees, Inuyasha bent over in pain to stand up, "Dammit! That hurt!" A shadow fell over him as he said this. The dragon was back. It let out a sibilant hiss and then a roar, which was a startling new sound.

It took a few seconds for Inuyasha to realize that the demon was laughing, "Fool! You are worthless without the Tetsuiga!"

'How did it know the name? It couldn't have!'

"Back off!" The dragon and Inuyasha turned to see Kagome, an arrow in her bow, "I'll give you till three to leave him alone! One---Two---

"Kagome! Wait!" Miroku shouted, but he was too late.

"Three!' Kagome fired the arrow. The arrow shot straight at its target with a whistle. It was aimed for the dragon's chest, about where it's heart should be. The dragon, with its acute hearing, heard the sound of the Flute. A command rang through its ears, and its cat-like pupils dilated once and returned to their normal size. Time appeared to slow for a minute and a half. In that span of time, the arrow paused in midair then burst into flame.

"What?" –Kagome

"It stopped the arrow…" –Sango

"But how?" –Kagome