Disclaimer: I do not own the Inuyasha gang. I only own Kazel and Wonton!
If anyone thinks otherwise, I send Kazel to destroy you! (!ROAR!)
Kazel: The Dragon Demon
Chapter 7:
A Dragon Speaks And So Does Naraku
Kagome awoke to the sound of metal scraping against metal. She noticed that her bow and arrows were gone. "What's—Where am I?" she asked herself this as she sat up from where she lay on the cold hard floor. 'Wait a minute! A cold hard floor… What happened? Where am I?' Kagome then took some time to study her surroundings.
It was dark, that she was sure of. She could just barely make out the close bars of a cage around her in the sliver of light coming through a hole in a wall nearby. In this light, Kagome noticed a second cage next to hers. This cage contained a woman with long, red hair; Kagome was startled to spot a lizard-like tail; was pulling on a chain attached to a collar at her neck. That was where the metallic rattling sound came from. The woman soon appeared to give up on the chain, or get really frustrated, so much so that her form changed completely to Kagome's horror and surprise. This woman was the dragon demon!
"You cannot keep me here forever!"
"You're the dragon…" The demon appeared to notice Kagome for the first time, but did not respond to her statement. It roared so loudly that the walls of the two cages shook violently. After roaring in this fashion for what seemed like forever, the dragon began circling its cage, growling. Every so often a glint of light shone from its teeth.
"Why are you here?" Kagome asked in a small voice, she had no idea what the dragon would do as a response.
The dragon glared in Kagome's direction and growled, "I am here not of my own will. I should think that was obvious!"
"Why have you brought me here?"
The dragon brought its head in Kagome's direction, and glared intensely through the bars of its cage, "You blame your misfortune on me?"
"Well, yes. You were the one who attacked my friends and I by the lake and then captured me."
The look in the dragon's eyes appeared quizzical. It whispered the following in a hoarse tone, "What?"
"You don't remember? How could you not remember?"
"I never attacked anyone."
"How can you say that? You attacked and destroyed a whole village!"
"You accuse me…"
Kagome didn't know what to say to this. She remained incredulous at the fact that the dragon, or woman or whatever the heck it was, couldn't remember what it had done.
"All that I remember is being locked in this cage… and music… the music of hell for us dragon demons…"
"What do you mean, 'the music of hell'?"
A voice from the darkness out side the cage startled Kagome, and it sounded oddly familiar, "It is the music of heaven for others… such as me…" A shape that appeared darker than its surroundings stepped into the shaft of light from the window. Kagome recognized the face as…
"Wonton?"
"Yes. I had the demon bring you here, with this." Wonton held a long thin object up to the light. To Kagome, it looked like a flute, "The Flute of Michara." The dragon made a sharp hissing sound when the name was spoken. Kagome looked over towards it to see it crouching on the floor, claws over where its ears should be.
'What is going on here?' she thought.
"Don't take all of the credit, Wonton. Leave most of that to me, for using the Flute of Michara on Kazel was my idea." Kagome and Wonton turned to see the cloaked figure of Naraku, "But I couldn't have accomplished my plan without the loyal help of my dragon charmer."
"Dragon charmer? What have you done now, Naraku?" Kagome demanded.
"Why don't you explain your occupation to the girl, Wonton?"
"Yes. Why don't I, master Naraku? You see, pretty little girl, I am a dragon charmer. This means that I use my musical talents to 'charm' dragon demons out of their shells, so to speak."
The dragon roared in response, "Talents? Ha! I would hardly call it a talent! Your music is a blight to our existence!"
"Silence! Or I will use the Flute of Michara to dispose of you, filthy worm!" –Wonton.
"I'd like to see you try!" –Dragon.
Tired of the arguing, and the trading of threats, Naraku intervened, "Enough of this. I must proceed with my plan to draw Inuyasha here. And now that I have the girl all will go as I have forseen."
"You won't get away with this!" –Kagome.
"But in truth, I already have…" Naraku replied coolly and turned to leave the room with his dragon charmer.
When they had left, Kagome began searching for some, or any, way out of her cage. But as far as she could see, there appeared to be no keyhole or a door. The dragon scoffed at her fruitless search, "It is no use. There is no escape."
"You can't just give up! And we can't—
Kagome spun around to see that the dragon had again changed back to its form of a woman, "Why do you do that?"
"Do what?" The woman looked up at Kagome.
"Change forms?"
"It is part of who I am."
"What do you mean?"
"All of my kind, we each possess the ability of transformation. Among other things…"
"Anything to help us get out of here?"
"I have tried every spell I am able to complete. None have succeeded, otherwise I would be free of this prison."
"There's got to be some way out of here!" Kagome promptly sat down in the center of her cage.
The woman stared at the chain connected to the floor, "It is hopeless…"