Chapter Four - Scriptures

What's this? Something heavy... and wet. I can't move, it's weighing me down... like..

Tomoyo's eyes shot open as she angrily glared at the large wolf from before that was laid across her stomach and chest.

"You've got to be kidding me," she grumbled underneath her breath.

"Hi, gorgeous," that gruff and snarky voice drawled from the other side of the cave.

Is it just me? she wondered, or am I feeling a bit of deja vu here?

She pushed herself up on her elbows and shoved the sleeping, drooling creature off of her chest.

"Hey, there!" Ginta yelled excitedly and she shrieked.

"EEK!" she screamed and scooted as far away from him.

"Geez, I was only saying hi." he pouted like a little child who hadn't gotten the teddy bear he had desperately wanted.

"Calm down, Ginta," Koga ordered, "This courtesan is probably used to people being more seductive than friendly." He smirked and leaned back against a small boulder.

"Good one," Tomoyo shot back, "Bet it took you hours to think of that joke."

He quirked his eyebrow. "You're an extremely annoying girl, I must admit."

Her brow creased.

"Koga..." Ginta whispered, "I thought the only reason we haven't eaten her yet was because she has the Fire Stone, not because you wanted to flirt with her?"

Flirt!?

"WE ARE NOT FLIRTING!" Koga and Tomoyo both screeched. "WHY ARE YOU COPYING ME!" they shouted in unison once again, "NO! WHY ARE YOU MIMICKING ME?!"

"Can you stop doing that, it's kinda creepy." Ginta winced.

"No, YOU!" they screamed once more.

Another figure strolled into the room then, his hands laced together at the back of his head. "Whatcha all yelling at?" he asked as he picked something out of his ear with his long fingernail.

Eww, she scowled, scrunching up her nose.

"Anyway," Koga diverted, completely ignoring the white-haired male whose hair was spiked up in every possible direction, "Tell us everything that you know, human, or... we'll kill you."

Really, the standard 'I'll kill you' threat? Pftt.

"Nope." she said.

The trio just sat there bemused.

"No... You don't wanna do that," Hakkaku warned.

"He's right," Ginta nodded, "Koga's angry enough as it is, you should just tell him everything you know and he might let you live."

Koga simply sat there, a neutral expression on his face.

Tomoyo raised her eyebrow, amused. "Really? I think you're all bark and no bite."

Koga rose up slowly from where he was sat, his expressionless mask still in place. She gulped. Every step he took towards her, sweat dripped down her forehead. This guy was seriously scary! Maybe he had a little bite in him after all.

He was on her in a matter of seconds and shoved her into the ground.

"Oi!" she gasped, kicking her legs trying to escape from his grasp.

Oh my god. I can't look at his nails. How come they're longer than mine? They look like frickin' claws!

Koga beckoned one of his wolves, and Tomoyo sat there in confusion as the creature stalked towards them.

"C'mere, buddy." He held the wolf's face in his hands and nuzzled their noses together. "This human here isn't tellin' me what I need to know, so can ya do me a solid, pal?"

The creature looked extremely happy for some reason, which alarmed her.

"Good boy." he grinned.

Abruptly, the wolf put its paws on either side of your face and began... licking her face.

"Eek!" she shrieked, "Stop! That tickles!" She giggled and tried to pull away from the wolf.

A few minutes later, she finally gave in.

"Okay! Okay! I'll tell you." she threw her hands up in the air in defeat.

This is only a dream anyway... right?

She sat more comfortably and the others did as well. They sat before her and she explained everything.

"Okay, here goes. I'm a descendant from the Phoenix Clan, and the title of the Phoenix Priestess was passed down to me. The Fire Stone has been handed down through our family for generations, and my grandfather gave it me before he died. It apparently has the power to heal any injury or destroy anything unholy or evil. I never really believed that old story, but I used to love it when I was younger."

The Fire Stone and Phoenixes are connected because the stone is supposedly the heart of the very first Phoenix. The story is the Phoenix fell in love with a Wyvern, and their hearts crystallised because of their forbidden love. The Phoenix's being the Fire Stone, and the Wyvern's, the Dark Stone, which was lost. It's said in the scriptures that someone of the Avalon clan will find the Dark Stone and reunite the two stones. And that's it."

Hakkaku rubbed his chin after listening to the story. "So, how does Kagome-onee fit into all of this?"

Tomoyo's eyes widened.

"Sorry, did you just say... Kagome?"

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