Meeting with Fangs

All I could do was run away from it. The fangs that bared down at me was terrifying and all I could do was run from it. But there was someone waiting just beyond my reach. I ran to him as fast as my legs could carry me until I was enveloped in his broad arms and safe in them. The beast that was chasing me halted and stared me down ready to tear me limb from limb, but the man I ran to shielded me from its gaping maw and snarling fangs without hesitation.
It was futile.
The beast tore me away from the mans arms and had me under its claws as its teeth loomed over my face and I could only frantically look at the man that tried saving me but unable to see his features as he reached to save me before the beast clamped its maw and everything turned red.

I woke up screaming. Dripping in sweat and my hair disheveled from the dream I just had. Mr. Higurashi came running to my bedroom holding a bat believing someone broke in when he took a look at me and dropped his weapon.

"My goodness," he gasped. Coming up to me and bringing me into his chest, I found myself able to breathe not realizing I was holding my breath. "This is unlike you Clara…what terrible nightmares did you have to make you scream?" Patting my back, cooing softly to a crying child and making sure I was alright, I tightened my grip on my arms and just focused on breathing. The tears were there but I couldn't just wail it out like I wanted to for how scared I felt.

"I don't…know…" my voice rasped, my body was shivering from the cold and I couldn't help but feel scared. After about 30 minutes Mr. Higurashi felt I had calmed down after a while and told me to try and go back to sleep after having something warm to drink. He left with a yawn but a caring smile as he returned to bed but I just sat in bed staring at nothing. Before long though I did get that warm drink to help me settle, but even then I still had shivers and couldn't think of going back to sleep yet.
Taking a jacket and slipping on some shoes I went outside to feel the nice cold air pinching my skin and easing my nerves just a little.
"…just what kind of dream was that?" Getting gooseflesh on my arms and rubbing them out, I stopped in front of the old shed that held a well inside. I never knew the reason it was inside the shed, but it doesn't hold any water inside it as far as I know and the Higurashi's told me it's always been dry since before moving here.
Deciding to go inside it and see it for myself, the door wasn't locked and the well really was just an ordinary well without a covering. Looking down at it and seeing the cobwebs inside it made me nervous about the kind of spider that would live in it.
"Not without a damn flashlight am I even thinking about going in there."
Making myself seem brave but really I'm just a chicken, I sat on the cleanest edge I could manage to see and just sat in the quiet.
"I blame that fortune teller…haven't had these kind of nightmares before in my life." As I contemplated the whole thing I felt my eyelids getting heavy so suddenly and a yawn so big I felt my jaw pop. "Why do I feel so…sleepy...?"

My mind drifted uncontrollably, and I felt weightless though I knew I was sitting on something solid. Even the thought of falling didn't disturb me, and I know well enough I fell backwards into the well and would surely fall to the bottom.
So then why? Why do I keep falling so far down the well without reaching the bottom? Just how far does this well go?

"Quickly now…grab her before she falls to her death!"

Hearing voices? My head is so foggy from the strange fall I don't know what's going on. Is this another dream?
Something like rough sandpaper touched my arms and legs and another rough substance was all around me like I was put into something.

"The Lord of the East will grant us riches with such a fine offering." The voice cackled gleefully. With more snide cackles and haughty laughter, the voices kept talking and sounding more gruff than before.

"Well we are the only ones who know how to use such a spell to retrieve such delicious humans."

"Right you are," it cackled.

I couldn't open my eyes, but I knew that I was being handled roughly and dragged inside of something large. So aware yet unaware at the same time that I wished I could open my eyes and run from whatever it was that got me!

"Oh no, the Lord of the West approaches!" The voice shrilled and the way I was being handled felt like they were trying to hide me.
A harsh jerk pulled me to the left and I felt the ground in seconds. I felt the padded dirt beneath me through the sack and couldn't move my arms. Just what was going on around me?!

"Stay away from my lands," a booming voice spoke. I felt my chest tighten and breathing hitched. What is going to happen to me if I can't get out of this? "Son, something is over there." The booming voice spoke, and the crunching of twigs and leaves got loud in my ears. Closer and closer until I felt the presence looming over me and grabbing me off the ground. "Careful…something about that seems important." A snide remark from how I heard it, but I couldn't control my heart racing to what was going to happen to me.

"Father…it smells human."
The man's fingers coiled around the rough bag around me and shredded it with ease as if merely paper to him. I rolled out and fell to the ground once more and tasted the dirt beneath me.
"I believed it to be human…"
Is that a snide remark?

"…certainly not a demon." The man with the booming voice spoke.
I was barely able to move my head in the general direction of the voice and saw a man with long silver hair tied up into a high ponytail. My eyes focused a little more and I could see the man wearing some sort of fancy kimono and an armor breastplate? A little more looking and I also saw the swords hilted at the hip. Just where did I end up when I dozed off?
"Interesting…bring her here."

I was picked up again, roughly, and brought over to the man with the condescending voice. Getting closer to him and sensing I should fear him, it wasn't until I made eye contact that I felt fear sink in completely.

"How peculiar to find such a human…what were those meager demons thinking of using her for I wonder?" Rubbing his jaw calmly while speaking with the other, I barely rolled my eyes to the side to catch view of the one holding my arm and saw the resemblance. Both had the long silver hair and strong facial features—you'd be blind to not think they were related.

"Father, is there really a need to be curious over a human?" He spoke with a stoic face. Without mincing words and showing little to no emotion, I felt belittled beneath their gaze. Both of them had such an aura about them it could choke the air you breathe!

"Not so fast, Sesshomaru," his father raised his hand and turned to face me. His piercing gold eyes on me and making me unable to keep a steady gaze at him, he cleared his throat. "Human…for what purpose were you taken for? Gremlins of the East serve little purpose, but in spite of that they retrieved you from a sacred tree."

"…I…" choking on my own words, it felt like liquid fire going down my throat. Swallowing it down and trying again, I bravely looked up at him once more and tried to speak properly. "I don't know…all I remember is falling backwards into the Well when I got drowsy." My tears started to fall. I just couldn't help how scared I was. Covering my face with my free hand and just wanting all this to be a dream, the man seemed to grasp my situation and ordered his son over to his side.

"I am by no means a civil Lord…but I do see something worthwhile to my advantage. Sesshomaru, bring her along. This mortal woman will come to be of use for us."