Title: Loose Ends
By: EVL5011
E-mail: Omnipotentevil5011yahoo.com
Chapter 4: Severing all ties
InuYasha and the gang turned around, behind them was the man known as Gregor. He continued laughing as they moved away from the ledge of the mountain. Gregor wore a pair of brass knuckles on both of his hands and smiled menacingly at InuYasha and the others.
"You're the one causing Chimera so much trouble? You are but a mere child, how could his men not have been able to kill you?" he so confidently said. Gregor stared at Miroku, Sango and Kagome, "It's unfortunate that I must kill you three too, you three can wait there while I beat your friend to death." Smiled Gregor.
"No guns?" asked InuYasha.
Gregor shook his head, "guns? I'm a hands on kind of person." Smiled Gregor, "you think that you can take me on? Hand to hand?"
InuYasha handed his scabbard and tetsusaiga to Kagome and harshly told the others not to interrupt. He raised his hands and cracked his knuckles. The discomforting popping made Gregor uneasy and he raised his fists in the air, both were ready to go at it. They both walked up to each other and quickly began the fistfight. It was a rather unusual spectacle, as Kagome, Sango and Miroku watched.
Gregor threw the first punch and hit InuYasha across the face, causing his neck to jerk to the side. Gregor followed with another violent punch and hit InuYasha in the gut. The hanyou moved backwards and shook his head. He spit out a small amount of blood and lunged at Gregor. The hanyou swung his fist and couldn't help but to use his sharp claws and cut Gregor across the face. The powerful man ran his hand across his face and stared at the blood on his hand. His cocky smile disappeared and he cringed as he stared at InuYasha.
"Heheheheee…I see that you're holding back boy! Don't be scared to hurt me, because I'm going to beat you to death!" smiled Gregor. He immediately launched another powerful blow, hitting InuYasha on the throat.
InuYasha gasped for air and grabbed his throat with his left hand. He looked up and felt foolish for letting a human hit him. InuYasha coughed and wheezed as Gregor moved in slow motion, the huge man had his fist in the air. InuYasha reacted as fast as he could and ducked down. He opened his hand and jammed his fingers deep inside of Gregor's rib cage.
Kagome, Miroku and Sango watched as Gregor's eyes bulged out. The large man frowned horribly as InuYasha twisted his fingers inside of him. The warm blood ran freely from the deep wound, the hired assassin raised his elbow high into the air and struck InuYasha violently on the back. They both pushed each other apart and gave one another a smug look. Both were slightly bloody and appeared ready for the second round. Before the two could even continue the same ripple from before dropped down behind Gregor.
Sango noticed the strange ripple and warned InuYasha, "Careful! That invisible person is behind him!"
"What?" wondered InuYasha, he looked over Gregor and saw the ripple in the air advancing on him and Gregor.
Gregor felt the presence of someone or thing behind him and turned around. He stared at the distortion in the air and opened his mouth, "Aaaaa…" The words failed to leave his mouth as a two white streaks cut across his body.
InuYasha jumped backwards and watched as his adversary had two large cuts magically appear on his chest. The two deep lacerations revealed that he was cut down to the bone. The bomber attempted to retreat, but heard something give off a loud crack. The invisible attacker had cut him down the back and his shirt tore in two and revealed his entire spinal column. It was a morbid sight as Gregor fell on his knees.
"Shouldn't we help him?" asked a shocked Miroku.
"Like hell I'm going to help him, he wants to kill us. That's one less person to deal with!" InuYasha so coldly said.
The distortion in the air walked up behind Gregor and grabbed a black object from his belt. The black item turned out to be a small hand grenade. The invisible enemy appeared to plunge the grenade deep into the opening in Gregor's back.
"Ahhhh…you son of a bitch!" Gregor blurted while choking on his own blood. The invisible person then picked him off the ground and threw him over InuYasha and the others. They ducked down and were showered by the assassins' blood, as he passed overhead. Gregor disappeared over the ledge and they all turned around and ran towards the ledge. A loud explosion followed shortly after and Gregor's body burst into large chunks of human confetti.
Inuyasha turned back around and faced the invisible person, "Who the hell are you?" he asked. "You're that guy who killed all the villagers?"
The invisible person remained a good distance away and appeared to make some minor movements. Its invisible shroud suddenly disappeared and a darkly clothed person stood in front of InuYasha and company. The now visible enemy, moved back and placed a few synthetic Shikkon jewels on the ground, it was an invitation to pursue him. The darkly clothed opponent pointed up towards a certain spot on top the mountain and quickly began jumping up.
Miroku was in disbelief as their enemy moved at incredible speeds, "Did you see how fast he moved? He moved faster than InuYasha." Miroku walked up behind Kagome and asked, "Did any of the other Agents ever move that fast?"
"Not really, they were strong, but I never seen them any of them move that fast." Replied Kagome.
Sango and InuYasha approached the small pile of crystals and Sango held one in front of her, "These crystals have a strange energy around them." Sango handed the remaining crystals to Kagome and they then began climbing again. They were not to far from where the mysterious Agent had pointed.
InuYasha and the others finally had made it to where the Agent in black had pointed. They stood before the fully repaired entrance to the gateway. As they approached the opening they heard a voice speaking loudly. Sango and Kagome both entered the cave and found a vast array of weapons scattered on the ground. Kagome then found where the voice was coming from, it was a rather small radio, and she pulled it out from within a small bag and listened to the voice.
"Shikyo…Gregor…Agent Orange…One of you three respond!" shouted the voice. InuYasha and Miroku listened to the unknown person calling for someone to respond.
"Could those be the names of the other two assassins?" wondered InuYasha out loud.
"It has to be. The female we encountered said that her name was Shikyo. I'm assuming that the other two had to be Agent Orange and Gregor, but who was that person that was invisible?" asked Miroku.
"Give me that!" ordered InuYasha as he snatched the small radio from Kagome's hands. "How do you talk through this damn thing!" he asked. Kagome showed him the button on the side and told him that he had to press the button to speak. InuYasha held down the button and proceeded to talk, "I hate to be the one to tell you this, but I think that all your Agents are dead!" smirked InuYasha as he spoke to the other person.
"Hmmm…I see, and who is this? Are you by any chance InuYasha?" asked the unknown person.
"Yeah, it is, and who the hell are you?" InuYasha asked as he waited impatiently for the person to respond.
"I see no harm in letting you know my name, since you'll all soon be dead. I'm Chimera and I control all of the military in this country. I'm an Autocratic ruler, you and that little bitch, Kagome, have been a thorn in my side from the day that cursed Noh Mask appeared." Chimera stopped speaking for a second and resumed, "I am slightly disappointed to find out about the sudden demise of my recently hired assassins. Did you also kill my latest experiment?"
"Experiment?" thought Kagome. "That's who the fourth person was." She told InuYasha and the others.
"Chimera was it?" asked InuYasha. "I hate to be the one to break this to you, but your experiment is the one who killed you hired assassins." InuYasha released the small button and waited for Chimera's response.
"…" The radio remained silent for a few long seconds, "I guess my experiment has decided to explore his free will. I'll be seeing you shortly. I should've dealt with you and that girl personally." Chimera ended his conversation with InuYasha.
InuYasha smashed the small radio against the ground and looked at Kagome, Sango and Miroku. "Lets find his so-called experiment. I can't take the risk of having some uncontrollable experiment running around. After all, it did kill two of his assassins already.
