Title: The Maid and the Dog
Genre: Angst/Drama
Rating: K+ (PG)
The Maid and the Dog
Far to the east, where reedy grasses danced and swayed along rolling and wandering plains, there lived a mighty Dog Lord.
He was a cruelly fearsome creature. One who struck terror and awe in all who looked upon him. Wisely, for he was as beautiful as he was powerful and as cold as he was cruel. Frighteningly, he held the power to cleave heaven and sunder earth.
The Dog Lord had wandered for many years with only a loyal vassal as company. The vassal was very wise and exceedingly proud of his Lord. He was, however, worthy of great praise for none were braver or more loyal than he.
Once he met a maid who was very plain, but possessed a radiance that made her divine. Foolishly she sought to aid him, only to be saved in kind.
Indebted the maid traveled with the dog and they shared many adventures. Wandering upon treacherous seas and through foreboding mountains.
Always did the dog dutifully protect the maid, even if he claimed otherwise.
Until one day, a silent foe slipped passed the dog's watchful eye. A twisted and sluttish creature, envenomed with the surest poison. Time.
Although gravely wounded, the maid managed to smile as she bid him not to mourn. It was then, the dog tried to shatter heaven, but some gates are well and truly barred.
He laid her out on a babbling brook and watched her drift away on lily pads. Staying until her pale form slipped beneath the shallow waves and into the arms of eternity.
Perhaps in her memory, for none could truly say, he went on to live as he did. Wielding harsh justice and harsher mercy. He changed the world one sword strike at a time.
Despite all his deeds and ever-increasing followers, he never forgot his maid. Realizing that while death might slay love, it cannot touch friendship.
Some thought him a hero and others insisted he was a despot. Later he would abandon both and be called husband and father.
But to the maid he was just Sesshoumaru-sama.
