Hiya! Thanks for the reviews everyone! Here is the second chapter of An Eternity of Youth. I hope you enjoy it.
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PART I: THE FOUNTAIN
'The legend of the fountain of Youth is known through out the world. Juan Ponce de Leon was the first to make it to the land where the fountain of youth is located. He was killed by natives of the land soon after. Juan Ponce de Leon had failed to find the fountain, but I shall not. My crew and I will find it and we will live an eternity of youth'
Chapter 2
"You can't be serious." Inuyasha said refusing to believe her, "There is no way that we turned into demons."
"I really don't see why it's so hard to believe me." Kimi replied frowning, "I mean, if you simply became immortal then you wouldn't have changed forms the way you did."
"I searched for this fountain to become immortal not to become a demon!" Naraku growled angrily.
"That's not my fault." The goddess replied, "No one ever said that drinking from this fountain would make you immortal."
"But this is the Fountain of Youth isn't it?" Sesshomaru question
"Of course it is." She nodded, "It's the Fountain of Youth not the Fountain of Immortality. It's not my fault you idiots got the wrong impression." She looked at the crew with a frown, "Besides what wrong with being a demon. If you ask me it's better then being immortal. You're ten times stronger, faster, and in some cases smarter then any immortal human. Plus you live like 100 times longer then any human and you're a lot harder to kill," She paused as she thought for a second, "So it's like being immortal only you can die, it's just harder for it to happen."
Naraku seemed to calm down a bit at her words, 'Perhaps I could benefit from being a demon after all' he thought
Inuyasha looked down at his new claws and flexed them with a smirk.
"I suppose you guys would want to know what type of demons you are, correct?" Kimi said
Many members of the crew nodded, while the rest were still trying to understand the fact that they were no longer human.
"Okay then." Kimi aid looking around, "Where to start?" She pointed out a few fox demons, bear demons, dog demons, wolf demons, cat demons, tiger demons, and horse demons, there was even a butterfly demon and a caterpillar demon.
Sesshomaru turned out to be a dog demon, while Kouga was a wolf, Naraku a spider, and Inuyasha was also a dog, but for some reason he was only half demon the rest of him still human.
"He must be partly immune to the powers of the water." Kimi said thoughtfully. "This doesn't happen to many people."
"So I'm only half demon?" Inuyasha almost yelled, "What does that mean!"
"You have half the power of a full demon, but you are still way stronger then any human." The blue haired woman said
"Are you a demon?" a random crew member asked out of the blue
"Oh, of course not!" Kimi said, "I am the Goddess of Life."
"All hail the Goddess of Life" another on the crew member cried out. He got to his knees and began to worship the young goddess.
Kimi couldn't help but laugh, "At least someone can appreciate me." She said suddenly her laughter stopped her eyes focused on the cave entrance, "I believe it's time for me to take my leave, until next time." She said with a smile. She blew a kiss to the crew and the same light from before flashed. When it faded Kimi was gone.
"Get back here woman!" Inuyasha cried out, "I want to be full demon!"
"That's enough Inuyasha." Sesshomaru said looking at cave. She could sense something and smell something as well. It smelt of gun powder and grease. "I believe we've been found." He said walking in front of his waiting for the soldiers to arrive.
His crew stood behind him with confidents smirks firmly planted on their faces. They were demons now and there was no way they were going to loose to a bunch of humans.
"Well, well, well" Sesshomaru taunted as the army of human soldiers approached, "If it isn't Captain Black." He said looking at the man standing in front of the rest of soldiers. "It's been a while."
Captain Black was the captain of the Kings personal army. He was said to be the strongest soldier in all the land. Jake Black had redish-brown hair that came to his shoulders and piercing blue eyes. Many thought he was extremely good looking but to others he was pure evil.
"Yes it has. When was the last time I saw you?" Captain Black asked, he pretended to think about it for a second, "Oh yes, I remember now. It was when I had the pleasure of slicing the throat of your dear little sister." Sesshomaru's eyes narrowed and he growled angrily. "Oh did I hit a soft spot?" Black asked with a smirk
"You will pay for killing her." Inuyasha yelled
"Hmm… if you're that upset at the fact that I killed your sister I wonder how you'll react to the next thing I do." Black snapped his fingers and some of his men stepped to the side. There were rumors that said that he enjoyed killing women. They said he loved to hear to hear them scream as they died and beg for mercy before he took their life. Sesshomaru knew that those rumors were true when his crew pushed a young woman with long black hair forward.
Since the woman's hair hid her face Sesshomaru couldn't tell who it was until she looked up at him. His eyes went wide when he saw the apologetic look on Midoriko's face.
"We found her on the boat." Black said as he grabbed her upper arm and pulled her to him. He took a dagger and placed it against roughly against her bare neck. "You really shouldn't leave a woman alone on a ship. The two don't mix very well."
Sesshomaru's world was starting to bleed red. He watched angrily as Black nuzzled Midoriko's neck and she whimpered softly, begging for him to let her go.
"Such a waste of beauty." Black whispered in her ear, "Say you'll marry me Midoriko and I wont have to kill you."
Midoriko glared at Black, "I would rather die." She said. She spit in his face to prove her point.
"Fine with me." Black pressed the blade against her neck hard enough to draw blood
Sesshomaru flexed his claws ready to attack Black before he could really hurt her. Black smirked and removed the dagger from the priestess's throat. She let out a small sigh of relief but before she could really move Black turned and stabbed the dagger into her chest. He pulled her close.
"You could've had me." He whispered into her ear. Black yanked the dagger out of her body and she fell to the ground.
Before she even hit the floor, Sesshomaru's eyes had become entirely red and his mind blank.
Sesshomaru blinked and looked around. He was surrounded by dead bodies. They were every where. He spotted Inuyasha and Kouga talking a few feet away. Sesshomaru got to his feet and walked over
"What happened?" He asked
Inuyasha and Kouga exchanged a confused look, "Don't you remember?" Kouga asked
"If I did do you think I would have asked?" Sesshomaru questioned
"We killed all the soldiers." Inuyasha said quickly
There was something strange about the way he responded, something wasn't right and Sesshomaru knew it. He looked around hoping to see what it was. All the other men were okay. It didn't look like they had many casualties. Suddenly Midoriko's face flashed in his mind.
"Where is she?" He demanded
"She who?" Kouga asked
"Inuyasha, where is Midoriko?" Sesshomaru asked trying to stay clam
Inuyasha was unable to look his brother in the eye "Over there" He said softly as he pointed over to a small patch of flowers near the fountain.
Sesshomaru walked over, slightly afraid of what he would find. When he arrived he crumbled to the ground. He took Midoriko's limp body into his arms and held her close to him. "I will avenge you." He said. He looked down at her face. It was so peaceful, it looked like she was sleeping, but he knew she would never wake up again. A droplet of water landed on her cheek. He put a hand to his own face to see where it had come from.
"I'm crying." He said to himself. He whipped the tears off his face and set her body down gently and walked over to where his crew stood waiting for him.
"Do you want us to bury her body here." Inuyasha said quietly
"No." Sesshomaru said, "She will buried in the place where she was most at ease."
"Where is that?" Kouga asked
"Out in the ocean." Sesshomaru said, "Please take the soldiers bodies and throw them into the cove, we don't need to disgrace this place any more then we already have."
The men nodded and began to drag the dead bodies into the water filled cave. Once the water became waist deep they decided to drop the bodies there.
Sesshomaru went with his brother, Kouga, and two other crew members to carry Midoriko's body to the ship.
3 hours Later
The crew of the Shikon no Tama stood at the back of their ship, their captain stood in front of them and in front of him was a wooden coffin they has built. Inside was the only female they had ever allowed on their ship. They had covered the coffin with flowers and were ready to lower it into the waters below.
Sesshomaru watched as they slowly lowered Midoriko into the ocean. He took a deep breath and watched as she disappeared forever. As soon as the coffin was engulfed into the dark waters of the ocean a light breeze blew. Sesshomaru closed his eyes and allowed it to blow though his long silver hair.
"Rest in peace." He said quietly. He tossed the blue iris he geld into the water and walked away. He ignored Inuyasha's words and his men's sympathetic looks. He just walked straight to his cabin and locked the door and there is where he remained for several days.
End of the second chapter! What did you guy think? It wasn't as long as I had planned, but the next chapter will longer, I promise.
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