The Tome of Unreachability

by Emara-Lou

The book was not meant for children. It was not meant for anyone outside the coven. But this generation of the coven was weak and turned evil. So the book escaped...

4. Chapter 4

A/N Em- We finally got a review! Granted its from someone who Sara had to beg to read the story, but we'll take it! Well, thanks. And I'd like to say that in the first chapter…. Yeah, those were actual quotes from mr Campbell. And any of the crazy stuff Sar and Em do? Yeah, probably based on the real thing. Either that or exactly like it… oh, dear…

Chapter Four

Sara sensed Em's despair. 'Em, what was the Veronicas concert like?'

'Well,' sniffled Em, 'we sat on Lisa's side of the stands, but Jess's side was the loudest. They sang my favourite song and they sang Faded by Kate whoever because they co-wrote it together...'

Em's words faltered as light glowed underneath her left fingertips. Zolo's skin knitted together and the veins met.

Em started to haze out...

Sara ran her hand over Zolo's brow comfortingly. Someone went for a bowl of water to wash the blood off Zolo's chest. Someone else lifted Em up to her feet by the underarms and led her over to Arlong's pool. They helped her wash her hands. They spoke to Em but to her it was like a speaker had been switched off.

Sanji tried again. 'Em, are you okay?'

Then Sara appeared. She said no words but gave Em a hug.

Zolo walked unaided up to the three by the pool, pulling on his shirt as he went. 'Thankyou,' he said to Em.

She seemed not to comprehend his words but broke away from Sara and gave Zolo a hug.

Zolo wasn't sure what he should do so settled for gingerly returning the hug.

When Em let go, her eyes were unglazed. 'Let's go home, dude,' she said to Sara.

Sara smiled. 'Let's jet!'

The two retrieved the lolly bowl and The Tome of Unreachability from the clump of bushes where they had hidden them. The crewmates found them five candles and seven feathers. The girls arranged the candles in a pentacle shape.

They each went up to Sanji, kissed him on the cheek and hugged him.

'You're welcome at my place anytime,' said Em.

The girls hugged the other members of the Straw Hat crew, including those members whose names they had forgotten or never knew.

Zolo took out his bandana and tied it around Em's wrist. Her bottom lip trembled again but she resolutely turned away and clicked her thumb as though she were trying to light an invisible butane lighter. One, two, three clicks and a lick of flame burned from her thumb. With this Em went around and lit the candles.

As per The Tome's instruction, Sara placed the feathers at the southern point of the pentacle.

Then she and Em stood in the pentacle with The Tome and each held the bowl in which they'd placed the locket and the ring. Together, they recited;

'The home I sought was ever there

The land of home, hearth and care

Return me to the beginning place

To rest my head and warm my face.'

POOF!

Red clouds enveloped the girls and when the crowd of pirates and villagers looked again, all they found were five candles and seven feathers.

0o0o0o0o0o0

Sara and Em reappeared in Em's living room inside their first pentacle.

'That was awesome!' said Sara.

'You can talk, you didn't have to touch Zolo's blood!' said Em.

'You can't be squeamish about blood,' accused Sara.

'Anyone else's blood, yeah!'

Sara flumped onto the lounge. 'I'm bushed.'

Em gave a short laugh and fingered the bandana on her wrist. 'One Piece is still on.' She sat down beside Sara to watch.

'Hey, Sara,' asked Em after a while, 'do redwood trees have pinecones?'

0o0o0o0o0o0

'Where is it, Baraka?' asked the voice that was cold as snow.

'I do not know, Master,' said Baraka.

'Then find out,' said the Master.

'Yes, Master.'

0o0o0o0o0

Sara and Em sat on a bench at their school. It was second break and almost time for class. It was the Friday following their escapade into the world of One Piece. They had realised that for all the hours they spent in Coco village, not even a minute had passed at home.

A group of boys walked past them and wolf-whistled.

Em played with the bandana that she now always wore on her wrist. 'Don't you get tired of that attention?'

Sara shoved Em playfully. 'They were whistling at you too.'

'As if.'

'Uh, yeah. Ever since your face cleared up you're a-' Sara made 'bunny ears' with her fingers -' hot babe.'

Em shoved Sara back. But it was true; Em's face had been cleared of whatever small amount of acne she'd had almost overnight. She suspected her healing powers of working overtime, but she wasn't ungrateful for it.

'Hey, you wanna come over again?' she asked Sara. 'Mum's going out with Whatsit.'

'Oh, Whatshisface?' asked Sara.

'Nah, a new one.'

'Sure I'll come over.'

The bell rang for class and the two girls parted ways. Their school was a sprawling mass of buildings, with even its own farm.

To Em, it was a prison in which she was incarcerated every weekday. To Sara, it looked slightly better, since she was welcome amongst the popular.

While Sara walked to class, she met up with Wade, a guy who did not class himself as anything, but that didn't stop passers-by from hissing 'Emo' at him. They started an easy-going conversation about My Chemical Romance, a band both of them admired- one slightly more than the other.

Sara, as was her custom, straightened the patch of crimson in Wade's dyed black hair. And Wade, as was his custom, sank with teeth into her arm.

Em's sojourn to class wasn't nearly so enjoyable. She endured vicious taunts on the way to her room from those people who thought her not quite up to scratch on the 'human' quota.

By the time she crossed the threshold of her extension science class she was so angry that she struck her forehead against her desk several times.

'You'll scramble your brains if you keep doing that,' said Zack, the emotionless meathead.

'Zack, not in the mood.'

'You can't-' declared Zack knowingly before Em cut him off:

'Zack!' Em looked up, her eyes blazing. 'Shut your face or I'll scalp you with the point of my compass!'

Zack quietened. He had too often felt the sting of Em's compass.

0o0o0o0o0o0

After school and a quick stop at Sara's house to pack an overnight bag, they went to Em's.

'Let's raid the fridge. We have ice cream,' said Em dully.

Sara got out two spoons and Em got the ice cream.

'Did something happen at school?' asked Sara.

'No! Nothing happened!' cried Em defensively.

Sara watched Em crack the seal off the ice cream, sit on the lounge and shovel the desert into her mouth. 'Where's The Tome?'

Em glanced up. 'Uh?' She swallowed. 'With my diaries.'

Sara sat down and took a bit of ice cream. 'Go get it please.'

Em stuck her spoon in her mouth and stalked off to her room.

Sara ate some more ice cream. If a spell won't cheer her up, nothing will. Someone at school must have upset her. Maybe it was Carly... she thought.

Em came back with The Tome of Unreachability tucked under her arm. She gave it to Sara and sat back down.

Sara leafed through the pages thoughtfully while Em went back to eating ice cream like tomorrow brought the end of it all, stabbing her spoon into the iced desert as though it was someone's flesh.

'Hey,' exclaimed Sara. 'Why don't we summon someone?'

Em grunted.

'What is up with you?' asked Sara.

'Nothing, geez!' said Em.

'There is something wrong!'

'THERE'S NOTHING WRONG!' Em grabbed The Tome from Sara and stood up. 'SO LET'S SUMMON SOMEONE ALREADY!'

'You choose,' said Sara.

'Let's summon Akito,' said Em.

'Akito? From Fruits Basket?'

'Yeah. Why not? He's hot and he can blind all those stupid mongrels at school,' said Em, not quite sarcastically.

'Uh, maybe not,' said Sara. 'Anyone else?'

Em sighed. 'Nah. You choose.'

'Fine, Sesshy it is.'

Em grinned.

Soon the ritual was prepared. The girls read out the spell with their items of sentimental value in their hands:

'Heart to heart, I summon thee

Cast this spell to set thee free

Soul to soul, hand to hand

Divided, now shall cross the land.'

POOF!

As it had with Sanji, blue cloud rose from the lolly bowl. It rose higher and higher. Then it cleaved cleanly into two.

Lord Sesshomaru cast away the last remaining streams of blue with his long taloned hands.

Sara's breath caught in her throat. Sesshomaru... Sara had always held a bright torch for the well-spoken dog-demon. Her fingers itched to weave themselves into his rich silver hair.

Em put her locket back into her pocket.

The Lord seemed to have time only for Sara, hardly casting Em a glance. 'You,' he spat at her with venom.

The girls suddenly got very scared.

Uh, oh, thought Sara. Hostility is not a good sign...

A demon in the house, thought Em witheringly. And a pissed off demon at that... why did I agree to this? She edged slowly towards the front door.

'My enemy,' hissed Sesshomaru, 'did I not teach you a proper lesson before? The Princess Sara will no longer be your pawn!' With these last words, the demon leapt at Sara.

Sara's blood turned to ice and then thawed in a matter of seconds as she sprinted away from her love.

'Coward! You flee from me!' boomed Sesshomaru, his fingers glowing with the power of his poison whip.

'I'm not a princess!' cried Sara, her eyes flowing over with tears of fear as she ran through Em's house. It was useless to run from a demon- they ran faster and could last longer than any human.

As Sesshomaru extended his fingers to grasp Sara's hair, Em ran up to him.

'Haiiah!' she cried as she brought the umbrella she had collected from the stand near the front door down on Sesshomaru's head.

Sesshomaru turned and glared at Em. 'And what was that feeble attack supposed to do?'

'Distract you. Freeze, Sara!' shouted Em.

Sara waved her hands and, for the first time since the fight in Arlong Park, used the power to freeze.

Sesshomaru was encased in a prison of solid ice.

Sara breathed out heavily. 'Thanks, Em.'

Em threw her umbrella down. 'Okay, you're the InuYasha freak. Why does he want to kill you? It seems beneath him to attack randomly.'

'It is. He...' Sara sat in Em's swivel computer chair. 'He thinks I'm the demon that took over Princess Sara's body.'

'Princess Sara? You told me about her, wasn't she in the episode The Woman Who Loved Sesshomaru?' asked Em.

'Yeah... Maybe I look like her.' Sara played with a lock of her hair. 'But he's so angry.'

Em looked at the demon. His face was arrogant and it was clear that he thought he had nothing left to lose.

'If we don't melt him soon, he'll probably die.' She put her right hand flat against the ice near Sesshomaru's face. Her fingers glowed with the power of fire and water trickled away down the ice as the heat from her hand melted it.

'But... what if he's still angry?' asked Sara worriedly.

'I'll melt his head first and we'll explain and if he's still bloodthirsty you can re-freeze him and we can bury him in the yard,' said Em calmly.

Sara looked up at her in shock.

'Just kidding!'

Sara got some paper towels and wiped up the water dripping from Em's hand. When Sesshomaru's whole head and neck were ice-free, Sara's fingers twitched.

'Can I touch his hair now?'

Em smiled indulgently. 'If you must.'

Sara giggled and reached up to Sesshomaru's hair…

'What are you doing?' snapped Sesshomaru.

Sara jumped back and Sesshomaru strained against the ice.

'What sorcery is this?'

'Ours,' said Em haughtily. 'We needed to cool you temper so we can explain to you that we are not demons!'

'Then how do you have magic?' sneered Sesshomaru.

'Well, we cast a little spell to let us control the elements,' explained Sara. 'And anyway, if you kill us, you don't get to go back to feudal Japan.'

'You,' said Sesshomaru to Sara. 'Who are you?'

'I'm Sara.'

Sesshomaru looked at her suspiciously.

Sara put her hand up defensively. 'Not Princess Sara, just Sara.'

Sesshomaru looked away from her. 'You look like…'

'The Princess Sara?' asked Sara.

'Hey, maybe you're her reincarnation like thingamabob,' cried Em excitedly. 'That's so mad!'

'Maybe I am,' said Sara with a shy smile.

'I am Lord Sesshomaru of the Western Lands,' said Sesshomaru.

'Pure demon, son of the most powerful dog-demon there ever was, all that jazz, we know,' said Em. 'I'm Em. So are you going to co-operate or do we bury you in the yard?'

'I give my unbreakable vow that I will not harm you,' said Sesshomaru.

'Cool,' said Em and she continued to defrost him. It took a long time. Sara continued to mop up the water with paper towels.

When he was completely free, Sesshomaru sneezed violently.

Sara grabbed his hand, feeling how clammy it was. 'We need to warm you up!'

'The shower,' suggested Em.

'What?' asked Sesshomaru.

'If you don't get warmed up, you'll get sick,' said Sara.

'I don't get sick,' said Sesshomaru.

'Well, maybe in this world, you do,' snapped Em aggressively.

Sesshomaru allowed the girls to take him into the bathroom but stopped moving when they tried to cram him, clothes, boots and all, into Em's glass box of a shower. 'What is that?'

'It's kind of like a small waterfall with hot water,' explained Em.

Sara was too excited at the prospect of seeing Sesshomaru wet to speak.