Chapter 13: The half-demon

The tall knight dressed in white armor next to the princess stepped forward, "Just who are you?"

"The door is supposed to be a weapon," The princess added in, trying her best from keeping her voice under control like if she had not seen her soldiers suffer, "How have you used it? Answer us!"

Lucy squinted her eyes as the man continued to walk forward. He was tall, with long black hair, pale skin with blood red eyes. He wore a black and purple kimono and his smile was anything but friendly. She didn't like the look of him. And by Kagome's now glare, he knew her and he wasn't friendly. The name was ringing a tiny bell in her head, but couldn't place it. However, by how Laxus and Gajeel were, they recognized it.

He chuckled darkly, "There are some things that can be easily manipulated. Magic is one of them," his red eyes swept over the Princess as she seemed to quiver under his gaze.

"How?" Kagome all but snapped at him. She doubted it was really because of Kikyo's, technically, her soul that lead him here.

His handsome face turned into a smirk, but as he was going to answer, another voice interrupted them.

"What is the meaning of this?!"

Lucy and Wendy gasped. Lucy was afraid the moment she saw him, memories of what previously happened playing in her head.

"That's Rogue!" Wendy exclaimed. The current Rogue's eyes widened as he saw himself with long hair glaring at the other man as he menacingly approached him.

"Where is Natsu?" Lucy demanded as she pushed the fear away.

Fture Rogue wasn't paying attention to them. He was glaring at the man that seemed to have walked out of the door. The door which was supposed to have brought him the control necessary to defeat all mankind and destroy Acnologia. He took in all the demons and the amount of bodies on the ground.

"How dare you use my gate!" Future Rogue angrily shouted, "The gate to the future! My future!"

Naraku boredly looked at him, "Your future you say?"

Future Rogue growled louder, "Dragons were supposed to come out of that gate! How are they not here?!"

The Princess gasped in horror as he was the one that told her to open the gate in the first place.

He chuckled and that seemed to be the trigger a dark fury within Rogue. Just as he raised his arm to attack the other man, he was impaled.

Naraku had raised his arm as it took form of a sharp dark green tentacle and impaled Future Rogue right on his chest. He coughed as his eyes were wide in shock, blood dripping from his mouth. Naraku decided to take it further, as the tentacle that was currently through Rogue's body duplicated. With a quick movement, he tore the body in half, crimson blood flying everywhere as both pieces of Rogue's body fell to the ground in a deep puddle of crimson.

Wendy was horrified, and she screamed in terror. Gajeel shoved her behind him and grabbed Levy as well who looked like she was going to be sick. Lucy could feel the vile rising in her throat, threatening to spill out. Rogue was shaking as he saw the mangled body on the ground. He just saw himself get killed. Sting shook his head as he saw the amount of blood, "What the fuck!"

He retracted the tentacle as it turned back into his arm and hand. He flicked his wrist, blood flying from it, and he smirked as he looked at Kagome.

"Now that the pest is gone, why don't we get down to business. The jewel shards. Now."

Kagome felt the heaviness of the shards that were under her shirt, "Tell me how you got here."

She was trying to hide the disgust and the fear she felt. She knew he would get what he wanted if she showed that.

"She led me here. After I destroyed her body to pieces, the soul took a rather interesting path to get back to its rightful owner. Never would've thought that such a thing existed in the North that I control now."

No…

His eyes seemed to glow as he enjoyed seeing the different emotions on her face, "It's been a year my dear little Kagome. A lot of things have changed. I'm not going to repeat myself."

"What do you mean the North? What did you do to Kouga?!"

Naraku chuckled as he reached for inside his robes. As he pulled his hand out, Kagome felt like the world had fallen on her. In his palm, was almost the jewel fully completed.

"With you being gone, things became so much easier for me. The wolves fell, the cats from the South fell, the dragons of the East fell. All that remains is the West. They're quite stubborn actually, but I'm sure you're familiar with them."

Another tentacle shot out to the shield and Kagome winced. Naraku chuckled, "You're not used to having your full soul my dear. That shield won't last for much longer."

"We need to fight," Erza seriously said as she approached her, "We cannot let those demons continue on," and like a sign, the snarling of the bloodthirsty beings increased.

"Besides, you can't hold this for much longer," Gajeel said to her, "You have to drop it. We'll take care of this."

She shook her head as she sweated profusely, "You don't understand, he has a—"

An angry battle cry interrupted her as a ball of fire with someone in it came at Naraku at full speed. Lucy quickly seemed relieved the moment she saw him, but Kagome cried out, "NATSU DON'T!"

But it was too late. Natsu came in contact but energy crackled around Naraku as his shield intercepted the force of Natsu's attack. The energy shot at Natsu, sending him flying right at Kagome's feet with a nasty pop. Lucy ran out of the safety of Kagome's shield as she kneeled to check him.

"Natsu! Answer me!" she cried as she shook him. He opened his eyes as he winced, "He has a shield…"

Erza's eyes were wide, "Natsu couldn't even crack it."

Another tentacle shot out, directly at Natsu and Lucy since they were not protected by Kagome. However, before it reached them, lightning shot out of the sky, intercepting it and destroying it.

Laxus had stepped out of the shield.

Naraku's red eyes glared as he stared at the blond man, "That actually kind of hurt."

Laxus' face was serious as his eyes flashed dangerously, "I think you need to go back where you came from."

Naraku smirked, "Is that a challenge dragon?"

I can't directly hit him, but I can intercept his attacks for her to get away.

"Gajeel. Take her away."

Kagome immediately felt Gajeel wrapping an arm around her waist, "NO! YOU CAN'T!"

The shield was dropped as she struggled against Gajeel. She turned to him to beg, "Let me go!"

Levy was by their side immediately, "It'll be best if we take you away."

"That man wants those shards you have. If i recall, that's a huge no no. We are leaving."

She continued to struggle, but her eyes moved to the unmoving form of Laxus, whose aura was glowing as he challenged Naraku.

"LAXUS!"

He turned his head, and just winked at her. Her heart felt like a thousand pounds in her chest.

Naraku smirked as he raised his arm and commanded, "Kagura, do the honors please."

The woman stepped forward as her beautiful face turned into a dark sinister look. She extended her arm as her fan opened and with much grace and concentration, she moved it in a crescent like shape.

"Dance of the Dead."

Lucy gasped in horror as the mangled bodies of the dozens of soldiers that got killed, got up again. Their movements were inhuman, but they all raised their swords as they made way towards the wizards.

Evergreen wanted to throw up, "She's controlling the bodies!"

Erza was the first one to snap out of the disgust as she rushed forward, in her mind asking for forgiveness for slicing them. However, their bodies seemed to re attach again in a foam like way.

Her eyes were wide, "What is this?!"

Natsu grunted in pain as he stood, "Let's go everyone!"

Naraku's body shifted as Laxus lightening increased around him like a dangerous ball. A boned armor graced his body as three green tail like tentacle arms came out of his back. Various large hoop bones leading to a red eye appeared on his chest and two gauntlets with eyes at the wrists and back hand of his arms were shown. His right arm seemed to grow in size as a gigantic spike of diamond armor grew on it.

Several tentacles like thorns shot out of his raised arm towards the struggling form of Kagome as she was being taken away. But Laxus was fast. He intercepted every single one as the sky rumbled loudly.

"You're not going to touch her," the pissed off lightning dragon said with a force that would make anyone shake in fear.

Princess Hisui and Arcadios were confused on why the huge interest on the woman that was forcibly being taken away. He got a hold of Gray, who started to run forward to battle the demons.

"What is going on? We demand an explanation!"

Gray irritably yanked his arm away, "She's not from this world. That's her enemy and is after some shards she has. If he gets them, we can say goodbye to humanity, even in our world."

Kagome was crying as she was still trying to fight off Gajeel's hold on her. She saw everyone she knew rushing into battle against the demons. Although in reality they were mainly pests, there were so many.

Lily had caught up to them and Gajeel nodded at him, "Take her! We'll be right behind you!"

But as Lily barely took flight with her, a blade came from the sky and injured his wing. The exceed cried out in pain as both him and Kagome crashed onto the ground. Gajeel and Levy quickly got into a fighting stance as the woman with the red eyes appeared.

"You're not going anywhere. Dance of the Dragon!"

Several tornadoes appeared the moment she moved her fan, the tornadoes rushing to them. Gajeel grabbed Levy to protect her as he had seen the wind from the woman resembled blades.

"SKY DRAGON ROAAAAAR!"

Kagura's eyes glared as her attack had easily been intercepted by another wind user. Wendy stood, her eyes hard and ready to fight as Carla had her up above them.

"Get Kagome out of here! I'll take care of her!"

Kagura snarled angrily, "You think you can take me on kid? I am the wind."

Wendy's gaze didn't waver, "Try me!"

Gajeel felt proud seeing Wendy ready to take on a demon. She might be little, but she was a dragon slayer nonetheless. With a nod at the bluenette, they started to push their way out as demons started to surround them.

"You sure about this Wendy?" Carla quietly asked her as Kagura got on her feather and started making her way to them.

"I have a feeling if we take her down, her dead army will go down. I have to do this Carla."

The exceed nodded as she became Wendy's wings.

The demon and the dragon soared in the air for an airstrike battle.

Levy carried Lily as the exceed was bleeding from his wound thanks to Kagura. Demons tried blocking their paths, their hissing and growls ringing in their ears. Some quickly launched, bbut Gajeel used his iron club was easily disposing of them.

It was a repeat mode for a while. There were just too many of them.

"I need a bow," Kagome said to herself as she looked around, "Or anything by this point!"

A demon tarantula made its way over to her, and with an angry snarl for what was occurring, she raised her fist as it glowed in purifying energy and punched it, incinerating it in an instant. She ignored the surprised looks from Gajeel and Levy as she continued to defend herself. She had to protect the jewel shards.

She had to.

….

Naraku couldn't help but admit, but the lightning dragon he was fighting was actually a decent opponent. He was very calculating and his attacks actually electrocuted him a little bit. He smirked. Although the man was powerful, there was no way he would be able to penetrate his shield.

Laxus had been joined by Natsu to continue attacking Naraku. Even with the brutal force of fire and lightning, Naraku's shield wasn't deterring.

Lucy and the rest of the guilds were battling the other demons from preventing them leaving and going after the civilians. The princess had told her how to close the gate, but Naraku wasn't far from it, making it difficult from doing so.

Mirajane and Yukino joined the fight soon after. Mira had been in total shock by the amount of bodies of soldiers crumpled on the floor dead. She came into realization that it was indeed, demons attacking, that she soon took form and started to battling them. She caught Laxus and Natsu fighting a man, which she suspected was the cause of the horror that was happening in the garden, that she decided to join them.

Her own demonic aura glowed as she tore a tentacle that Laxus had missed. Naraku smirked as he could feel her aura. His eyes glowed red as he made eye contact with her and she froze.

She started to shake while her eyes were wide, "W-What's happening to me… I… I can't control… my bo...dy…"

Her yellowed clawed arm rose, and a ball of black energy shot at Natsu. He cried out, but as he got up he shouted, "Mira what the hell!"

Her eyes welled up in tears as her body moved without her consent, "I...I…"

Laxus growled, the pieces coming together of what he was doing and he attacked Naraku, "LIGHTNING DRAGON ROAR!"

The gigantic shot of lightning hit the shield, with Naraku laughing inside.

"You're a fool dragon. Nothing can penetrate my shield. Why don't you take care of your friend however? It seems he's having a hard time."

Laxus turned around, and sure enough, Mira was going after Natsu, who all he could do was avoid her.

"Mira snap out of it!" Natsu shouted as he avoided another claw of hers, but she had slammed her tail against his ribs.

Laxus roared as he turned back around, "How are you controlling her?!"

"The jewel gives incredible power," he said as he walked forward, "Even a single shard can increase a demon's power. Now imagine an almost complete jewel what it could do for me," he paused as his bloody red eyes glazed over Mira fighting, "I never would've thought that a demon like her was here. How convenient for me."

Laxus snarled again as he decided to hit the shield with his full body. Naraku laughed, mocking him as the shield hissed from the impact but no damage was done to it.

"I...I...I can't...chan...ge… ba...ck!" She all but struggled to say as she was still fighting Natsu. He was torn, because this was his friend being controlled by him. He didn't want to hurt her. Just as she raised her arm to penetrate his middle, a shot of white light came from another direction.

Sting sprinted and kicked her away from Natsu, "I understand she's your guildmate, so I'll do it for ya."

Natsu he held onto his arm on the floor, "Maybe knocking her out will snap her out of his control."

Sting reached with his to help him up, "I'll help you."

…

Lisanna saw what Naraku had done to her sister. She clawed the demons that came near her in her tiger form, "Elfman, he's controlling our sister!"

Elfman, in his best mode, punched a goblin away, "How?!"

Cana attacked five demons with her cards, "There's so many of them!"

Gray slashed others with his ice make Excalibur, "Laxus hasn't been able to land a hit on that guy either!"

Lucy yelped as a demon slashed her arm, "Agh!"

"Lucy!" Erza shouted. She ran as fast as she could and covered her as she held onto her arm, "Are you okay?"

The woman winced, "It got me pretty good."

Evergreen turned around as she felt someone behind her and her eyes widened. A girl with white hair, porcelain skin, and a white dress stood with a mirror in front of her.

"Girl? What are you doing here?"

But Evergreen's gaze landed in the mirror and her body seemed to freeze. She could see herself in it and everything around her was unmoving. Bickslow had just blown away another demon with his totems when he caught on Evergreen's soul floating towards the mirror.

"EVERGREEN!" he yelled in panic, "BARYON FORMATION!"

His puppets recreated a triangle and out was a shot of green energy directly at the small girl. This seemed to have snapped the concentration that it had over Evergreen as the brunette let out a gasp. Bickslow stood in front of her while ripping his helmet off, his eyes glowing a menacing green as he glared at the small emotionless girl.

"Don't look in her mirror. She tried taking your soul."

—

She had found a discarded sword, and with that, she channeled her purifying energy and started killing demons. She ducked, she rolled, she stabbed. She was covered in demon blood by this point.

But there were so many. They kept coming and coming, like an endless sea. She knew the only way for them to go away was by going after Naraku himself. She explained to both Gajeel and Levy that she needed to go back and somehow find a bow. She wasn't sure if she could destroy his shield with it, but it was worth a try.

Gajeel was reluctant, but once he saw Levy opening a path with her Fire Script magic to go back, he started doing the same thing. Lily held on tightly on her shoulder as they all went back. He looked up, and he could see Wendy up in the dark sky. She seemed to be chasing the woman.

—

Laxus cried out when he was slammed against the concrete, creating a crater. He coughed, blood flying out of his mouth.

This bastard is such a pussy, it growled, Doesn't have the balls to step out and fight like a man!

You literally just sounded like Elfman.

Who fucking cares, it snapped, We need to get him out of that shield!

He hated the fact that Naraku could actually punch him or kick him if he wanted to, but he could not do anything in exchange. Only whatever Naraku would extend at a certain radius is what he could take out with his lightning.

Sting and Natsu were struggling with Mira, as she was extremely powerful. The poor woman was apologizing and crying as she was trying to fight control of her body.

Eventually, Naraku had enough.

The purple aura around him grew in size and a wave of demonic aura shot out of his body, knocking everyone down. Various tentacles came out of his body and they extended, going directly to where he could feel Kagome. Laxus tried zapping them away, but more tentacles appeared around him to cover him.

A buzzing sounds came from the gate, as a swarm of Saimyosho came out.

Kagome was standing up after being knocked down when she heard them. She took a deep breath, hoping everyone could hear her.

"DON'T LET THEM STING YOU! THEY'RE EXTREMELY POISONOUS!"

Natsu growled as he punched a tentacle out of his way. He took a deep breath and did a fire dragon roar at the swarm in the sky. Some of the other dragon slayers immediately started to do the same thing.

Kagome had sliced a tentacle when one wrapped itself around her wrist where she held the sword, making it drop it. She struggled against it, but two others took a hold of her legs and started dragging her away. She was calling her energy, but after raising the shield of that magnitude before and slicing demons with the sword, her energy was faltering. She could feel the flesh burning of the tentacles, but it wasn't fast enough. As he had her up in the air, another tentacle wrapped around her neck.

Everyone could see her as she was held up fifty feet up in the air.

Laxus went to run to her, but tentacles trapped him away as well.

"Anyone moves and I will snap her neck," His smooth commanding voice echoed in the field. His demons retracted themselves to go back to him. He looked at Laxus, "You try electrocuting me and she's dead."

Her body glowed as she glared at him. His smirk widened, "Now, I will take that."

Kagome struggled as another tentacle went up to her and ripped the string around her neck, where the flask with the four jewel shards were. Just as he was bringing it to him as a cruel laugh escaped his lips, a boomerang seemed to appear out of thin air, cutting all the tentacles that were holding Kagome captive and the one that held the flask.

Naraku's face turned up into a snarl as he recognized the weapon, "NO!"

Kagome screamed as she was free falling, but she grunted as she landed in something with feathers.

"Kagome!"

She sat up quickly as her hands grabbed onto the feathers to not fall, "Shippo?!"

Laxus' eyes were wide in shock seeing her now in top of an orange giant bird. Suddenly, sutras were flung, landing on the tentacles that had captured him and burned them away. He quickly took advantage and destroyed all the other tentacles that were preventing anyone from getting to Kagome.

As she was trying to comprehend that Shippo was there, that's when she heard the all familiar snarl of Kirara. She saw with ease a blur of red jumped up from the fire cat and a fang shining with the moonlight as it glowed a scarlet red.

"WIND SCAR!"

Those that were near Naraku immediately removed themselves as they could feel the energy coming down from the attack that was coming at high speed. The demons screeched as the attack hit them as they were destroyed in one swing.

Naraku could feel his shield crumbling, eyes seething in anger, "How are you here?!"

The man landed just a few feet away from him, placing the giant fang over his shoulder.

"My bastard of a brother came in handy for once."

Shippo had landed back and in a puff of blue, he turned back to his original self. He jumped on her arms and hugged her neck, "We finally found you!"

Kagome was in shock, as her eyes rose to the back of someone she wasn't sure if she would see again.

"Inuyasha…"