The Quest: Demons Return

Author's Notes: Konnichiwa everyone! I finally got to update! Schoolwork, projects, test, and reports are bothering me lately. Also a few babysitting is bothering me. Now starting this week I will TRY to update, and I am really sorry for leaving you in that cliffhanger with Kagome getting cursed, well here it is! Oh yeah, Ed will be loosing something in the chapter


Chapter 8: The Curse in the Heart

Resembool: Green Hill

"RUN EDWARD ELRIC! RUN AWAY!"

Kagome then shot another purified arrow at Edward. Ed dodged it quickly and did a back flip. He stood up and hesitated. He didn't want to fight the one he loves the most. "Kagome! Please snap out of it now!" Ed yelled. Kagome didn't listen; she just shot another deadly glare with her piercing red eyes. She then pulled out another arrow and steadied it to him. Ed's golden eyes widened, why isn't she snapping out at least? There has to be someway to snap her out of it! He thought as a sweat poured slowly down his cheek.

Kagome then shot another arrow at him; Ed then back flipped once again and stood up. "I'm sorry Kagome I have to do this," he mumbled and he turned his metal arm into a metal sword arm. He then ran to her and cut her bow and arrows in half. "Eeek!" she screamed as she collapsed on the ground. Ed then stood up, tall and brave; he then looked at her with those serious golden eyes.

Kagome shot another deadly glare at him. "RAAH!" She then kicked his leg, tripping him on the ground. "OOF!" Ed then fell on his butt on the ground. "Damn, I never knew she was this strong…" Ed whispered as he rubbed his aching butt. He stood up once again but he saw Kagome charging right at him. "KAGOME! STOP DAMN!" But before he could even try to dodge, she already tackled him on the ground.

Ed struggled to get Kagome off but she kept punching him as hard as she can. "Kagome! Stop!" Ed then tackled her down the ground, Kagome tried to resist to get him off but he was too strong, "Kagome you got to snap out of this! It's not like you to do this!" He yelled at her trying to snap her out. Kagome then growled as she tried to push him away, her red piercing eyes became wide with fury. "I want you dead, that's all I'll do!" she said as she kicked his stomach.

Ed winced again as he was thrown off her with her kick. "Damn…" Ed struggled to get up. He was now holding his stomach, he then smirked, "Okay Kagome… if you want it that way, then I guess will fight…" Ed then got into his fighting stance; Kagome glared at him and did the same. Ed then ran to her as he shouted out of his lungs, he knew he needed to do this and so he did. "I'm sorry Kagome," he whispered as one tear slip out of his eyelids and fall down his cheek.

Kagome wasn't fast enough that she didn't get ready to hit him… then Ed put an arm around her and whacked his metal arm on her back making Kagome fall unconscious into his arms. "Ahh…" Kagome mumbled as she closed her eyes… Her red eyes faded away and turned into brown innocent ones. The red embedded shard on her neck came out. "It worked…" Ed whispered and smiles a bit. He then lay her in a safe place.

"Damnit!" Ed mumbled a few cursed words as he grabbed the shard that was embedded in Kagome, it was cursed like her and it needed to purify it quickly. He then clenched a fist and put the shard in his pocket. "That fucking black priestess really knows what she's doing…" Edward cursed as he looked up at the night sky. It was maybe about 12:30 AM or something… and he was still filled with energy… He then slimily sat next to Kagome's unconscious body. Ed looked at her, he then grabbed his red coat that he dropped and put it on her.

Kagome snuggled warmly in the warm coat and opened her chocolate-brown eyes. She saw Ed next to her, "Ed… what happened?" she softly said as she sat up with Ed's red coat around her. Ed looked at her with worried golden eyes, "This should explain…" he then held out the two embedded shards that came out of her neck. Kagome carefully took it and looked the shards closely. "I recognized this… no… the Black Priestess is at it again!" Kagome fumed as she punched herself.

"Hey Kagome don't do that!" The Fullmetal Alchemist grabbed Kagome's clenched fist. Kagome looked at him and blushed slightly. She looked at her fist; it was red and scratched from punching him when she was possessed. She then turned her fist to a hand again… she winced, "What did I do to my hand…?" she whispered. Ed smiled weakishly, "When you were possessed you punched me a lot… and it was hard…" Kagome sighed sadly, "I knew this would come again… the Black Priestess would attack…." Kagome then looked at her hand, it was bleeding.

Edward tried to smile and hide his pain; he then ripped a part from his black t-shirt and wrapped it around Kagome's hand carefully. "When this happens again, I will protect you… I promise Kagome, nothing will ever hurt you. Your friends will be always there for you… they will…" Ed smiled sincerely is he tied the knot and bandaged it. Kagome smiled back as she looked at her bandaged hand. She then put her hand on his cheek. Ed blushed furiously and said, "Ahh hell… were all tired right?" He said as he put in a toothy grin, but he still noticed that Kagome's bandaged hand was on his cheek.

"Umm…" He blushed as he tried to say something. Kagome then leaned closer to him as Ed's eyes widened as his whole face turned red like a tomato…

Mount Renkinjutsu: Black Priestess

Their actions were despising the Black Priestess as she watched them in her mirror. "That dumb wench…" she murmured. She stood up with outraged, "She reminds me of the dumb priestess Kikyo! I hate it!" she then kicked the wall with fury. "Why did the curse fade out? I thought the curse was permanent on Kagome!" she screamed. "I knew it, if the embedded shards came out of her the curse would stop!" Her demon dragon followed her and slither around her. Truthfully, Tsubaki envied both Kagome and Kikyo and she wanted to destroy them. After hypnotizing Kikyo she then knew Kagome, Kikyo's reincarnation… Tsubaki came back and did the same to her until she was put in a deep curse and was destroyed.

Then two years later, Koi, Naraku's son, came and brought her back to stop Kagome. He then told Tsubaki about Kagome being in love with Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist, instead of InuYasha. Tsubaki then knew a bit about Edward… she knew he was strong… but all she wanted was his power. "And that damn Elric… how I despised him…" she murmured angrily. She then looked back at the mirror and her eyes widened.

"THAT IS IT!" She yelled as saw Kagome and Edward kissing passionately. "That wench and that shrimp needs to die…" The Priestess then destroyed the mirror and then bright white light came and illuminated the whole room. After the bright light vanished, the Black priestess did too.

Back at Resembool

Kagome kissed Edward on the lips. Ed's eyes widened as his face turned redder. His eyes then closed later and kissed her back. They let go seconds later, Kagome looked at him with a scared expression. "I don't want you hurt… I just don't…" then tears escaped through her eyelids like small waterfall streams. Edward then hugged her tightly, "Everything will be alright Kagome… nothing will happen," he whispered gently. Kagome snuggled closely to him and closed her eyes.

"Oh you think nothing would happen? Ha!" A snicker was heard in front of them. Edward and Kagome stopped hugging and turned around. It was Tsubaki, the Black Priestess. Their eyes widened. Edward then turned back to Kagome, who was holding him tightly. "I want you to stay here…" he ordered her. Kagome looked at him with a scared expression, "W-What will you do?" she asked as Ed stood up and transformed his metal-arm to a sword. He smirked, "Don't worry Kagome I know what I'm doing, just stay close behind me."

Kagome nodded as she stood up holding Ed's red coat tightly around her. The night wind blew gently as Tsubaki and Edward glared at each other with silence. "So I see you're that Fullmetal Shrimp, I finally got to see you in person… you look weak in my point of view." The Black Priestess smirked. Her demon-dragon pet slithered around her and growled at Edward. Already a single sweat poured down Ed's face. "So what are you going to do about it Fullmetal Shrimp?" Tsubaki smirked.

"D-don't… call… me… a… Shrimp!" Ed yelled at the top of his lungs as he tried to charge at her. "Hm…" Tsubaki then closed her eyes and whispered mysterious chanting words and then a black barrier appeared around her. Ed didn't know about it and bumped into the barrier. The barrier's force pushed him away making Ed collapsed on the ground. Kagome gasped, "Ed…" she then tried to step in until Ed stood up, "KAGOME! I WANT YOU TO STAY CLOSE BEHIND ME OKAY? JUST DON'T GET INTO THIS!" He shouted at her.

"But you're getting hurt, you can't just protect me all the time!" Kagome shouted back. "I want to help you, please?" she pleaded. Edward stood up, without a word he pulled out another Crimson shard. He clapped his hands and put it on the shard. The Crimson Elixir Shard transformed into the reverse blade tetsusaiga sword. Tsubaki's eyes widened a bit but she tried to stay tough. "You think that's going to stop me?" she smirked again as she held out her hand, a small black ball appeared. She then released the black ball at him but luckily Edward guarded the blast with his sword.

"That attack is so pathetic…" Edward growled and looked at her with those deadly golden eyes. The priestess was shocked and yelled, "You bastard! Attack him my demon!" The demon pet then slithered quickly to Edward and growled. The dragon then jumped up and tried to attack his head until…

BOOM!

A purified arrow was shot through the air, and it hit the demon. The dragon-demon then was destroyed into a million pieces. Edward's eyes widened as he turned around. He saw Kagome's broken arrow was fixed. He also saw Kagome's arrow aimed at the Black Priestess. "Kagome…" Ed whispered with shock. "Edward, I want to do this, I want to destroy her… now please let me…" she said with a determined voice. "But…" Kagome then glared at Ed, "For all she's done Ed to me, Kikyo, and everyone else I want to kill her!" Kagome then screamed as she shot another arrow at her.

Tsubaki laughed maniacally as she grabbed the purifying arrow. "You think you can destroy me that easily huh wench?" she smirked as she faced the arrow at her… she then shot it at her. Kagome's eyes widened… Edward looked at Kagome then back at the arrow. "No!" Ed went in front of her and…

CRACK! SPLISH!

The purifying arrow missed but instead it hit Edward's left-leg… cutting it off. Ed screamed in pain, "D-Damn…" he winced. Kagome's eyes changed into a scared expression. "Edward…" She then glanced back at the Priestess… "You… you…" Kagome then closed her eyes and a burst of tears came. Tsubaki just laughed evilly at them, "Cry all you want, nothing will get Ed's leg back!" she snickered and laughed more at them until she noticed something was glowing.

She looked back at the two and saw both Ed and Kagome doing alchemy with a Transmutation circle. She raised an eyebrow, "What are you two doing?" she said as she glared at them. Kagome glanced at Ed and nodded. Ed nodded back weakly. "Ready?" he asked weakly. Kagome nodded again as she did a stronger force of alchemy. The Transmutation circle started glowing brightly. Then all the sudden and circle appeared under the Black Priestess.

"What is this nonsense?" she asked as she started doing her Black powers to stop the circle… but nothing worked. Kagome then helped Ed stand up since his left-leg was long gone. Edward smirked weakly, "It's called alchemy…" Kagome then cut him off, "And it's Purifying Alchemy." She then smirked a little. Tsubaki glared at them, "Why I…! What the hell?" she screamed as the alchemical circle started destroying her body and turning them into to dust. "W-What's happening?" But before she could do anything else Tsubaki screamed in pain as she disappeared and turn into dust.

Another cold chill came in from the wind.

Silence.

Edward then winced as he was loosing a lot of blood and it was quickly. "Edward!" Kagome shouted as she tried to help him. She then grabbed his red coat and tied it to his bleeding left-leg. "Everything will be alright… just hold on…" Kagome then laid his head on her lap. Ed then started breathing heavily, "I'm… loosing… lately… I… think I'm going… to need another auto-mail leg." Edward huffed as he winced. Kagome then put her hand on his forehead and traced it around his cheeks. "Just hold on…" Kagome whispered. She then looked up and shouted, "SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP! PLEASE!" Kagome looked back at Ed who was trying to live, Kagome leaned closer to him and put her forehead on his. "Everything will be fine… like you said… nothing will happen unless you believe…"

"Kagome! Brother! Are you two alright?" A voice shouted. Kagome turned around and saw Alphonse, Winry, and InuYasha. "Yeah… were alive…" she smiled weakly.

"The Black Priestess is destroyed…"


To Be continued… Please review and no flames…