Live and Die
Everything was wrong, everything! It wasn't supposed to be like this. Her future was in ruins she was sure, but since she couldn't go thought the well she would never really know. He had won, he had beaten them and taken the world.
"Inuyasha!"
She could still hear her own voice scream for her best friend and she shook from more than just the cold as she relived the memory of his head flying from his body, the blood spraying into the air and covering the grass around in a sickening red before his body even dropped his sword and crumpled to the ground.
She held her kit tighter to her in the darkness as he slept from his pure exhaustion. She wished she could do the same. But instead she could only let the horrible failure replay in her mind's eye over and over.
"Sango! No!" Miroku yelled sounding on the verge of hysteria.
She had never head him sound like that, he was always so calm and collected. Though she couldn't judge as she watched another friend fall in battle, her form thrown from Kirara and into the trees yards away to disappear. She dropped to her knees, how could they go on now, how could she go on. It had been Mirokus voice that broke her out of her shock. She didn't know how long she was in darkness, it felt like weeks, but couldn't have been more than seconds.
He was in her face, tears rolling out of his eyes like waterfalls, and a pure fear in the purple hues. "Kagome, get up. Get Shippou and run! Run and hide, you have to live." He told her before standing and running towards the hoard of... things, and Naraku who just laughed behind his army.
She had done as she was told, knowing that he was yet another friend she was never see again. He hadn't gone down without a fight, he had taken hundreds down with him in his wind tunnel she was sure. And she remembered as she ran away into the woods, passing by the corpse of Sango who stared up at nothing in terror, the sounds of his screams get louder and louder untill they died down completely, leaving the only sounds being Narku's laughter.
She swore she could still hear it now. She had run until her legs couldn't carry her any farther, only then stopping for a few moments before running some more. Until she made it to the well. With Shippou in her arms she had just leapt in without thinking. And that was where she was now. At the bottom of the well that wouldn't take her back home, the safe haven that she wasn't even sure existed anymore.
Crunch... Snap!
Kagome held her breath at the sound from above the well. If one of those things was up there, there was a hundred in hearing range and if it found them, she would have nowhere to go, nowhere to run. As she sat there, looking up to the dark starless sky above her she begged her heart to beat quietly but it just wouldn't do as it was told. Tears poked and prodded at her eyes, wanting to be released as the fear settled down on her and found its way to the pit of her stomach where it became hard as a rock and she forced herself not to swallow so as not to make a sound. Not that she thought she could swallow right now with the lump that felt as though it would stop her very breathing all together.
It felt like forever that she sat like that, well after the sounds had moved away and became nothing. Finally looking down at her dimly lit watch she realised that it had in fact been about an hour. Looking at the sleeping face of her kit she felt her jaw tighten up. The couldn't stay here. They had no good, water, and no escape if they was found. Their only chance of living though this, if you could really even call it living, was to find shelter and a food and water source. She was only thankful that those things seemed to be completely mindless, they made up for their lack of brains with sheer force and numbers.
Finally she stood on shaky legs, they felt boneless, like it was some sort of magic that was keeping them from just completely turning to the goo they felt like. Looking at the vines that lead to the top she was forced with the thought of how to get out quietly with Shippou in her arms. Looking to her feet she saw her yellow bad, covered in mud and blood, and almost completely empty. Picking it up with one hand she held it up, it would have to do.
"Sh-Shipou." Her whisper came out scratchy and she realized that she hadn't said one word since she had called out to Inuyasha. But the kit still woke right away and looked up at her fearful and she tried to put on a brave face and a smile.
"I'm going to need you to hide in my bag sweetie. We have to find a safe place and I don't want you to be seen." She said to him, her lips right by his ear and in such a low voice she wasn't even sure he had heard her, but she didn't want to risk anothing eles hearing her ether. Thankfully with a nod he hopped into her bag and she gave him a little kiss on the top of his head before dropping the flap over him but not actually closing it completly and putting it on her back.
They had to get though this, she would get to safety, if for nothing else then for him. Because she knew full well that had she lost him as well, she would have just laid down and died there with all of her friends.
Giving her head a shake she mentally kicked herself. She couldn't think about that, not now. She couldn't actually grieve the death of everyone she loved in this time. She could only think about how to live and how to keep Shippou alive.
Reaching for a vine with her shaking hand she used it to lift herself up before she could give it a second thought. It was a slow climb to the top, she stopped and thought about every move she made in hopes of making the least amount of sound as she could. Finally though she climbed over the lip of the well and planted her feet on the crisp grass, looking around herself caususly.
Nothing, there was nothing. That was both good st least. She hoped she could use the cover of darkness to move without being seen. She turned away from where the village was, the smoke coming from that way told her that it was long gone anyway, turned to ash and blood. She finally took the first few steps away from there, a place she was sure she would never go back to, never go back oe the painful memories that would surface should she so much as look back.
It was a couple of hours before dawn, and she was already looking for a place to stop and hide from the light of day. She was happy that these things seemed to be dumb as a box of rocks for the most part. But it wasn't their brains that made her fear...
A crack for a stick breaking under foot made her stop, it wasn't her foot it had broken under. She didn't want to look, she had to look, she didn't, yes, no... Yes. She turned her head as slowly as she could without moving another of her taut muscles that where ready to take off at any moment.
There it was, just behind a couple of trees, she could barely see it in the dark but she knew what it was. It's grey skin seemed to almost stand out as if the moon was reflecting off of it. It hadn't noticed her yet as it stumbled around and she dared not move in case that changed.
But as it stumbled passed one more tree, looking away from her it stopped and stood completely still for a moment, and that was when she noticed the wind shift, it was only a slight breeze, but she could hear sniffing sound and before she could even hope that it wasn't her it smelled it's head snapped back in a sickening way, a way no human's head should be able to do. And it's eyes, glowing red when it caught sight of her and that mouth... Blood dripped from it, it seemed larger than what should be considering the mostly human looking shape of it, and had rows of sharp-pointed teeth like a shark almost. It's bald head gleamed in the moonlight and it took one more sniff though it's nose, if you could call it a nose, it was two holes where it's nose should be.
Kagome felt frozen in fear, but she found herself move without her even knowing really when the thing started a dead run for her, a piercing scream drifting though the air, not from her, but from this thing. And the answering screams of others.
These things where never alone! Never! There was always at least a dozen of them in hearing range, split up to hunt, but close enough to help when one found something worth hunting. Which seemed to be anything with a heart beat. She had passed villages that night, both human and demon, and none had been spared. She took off away from the monster, that's right monster, it was no demon, the things didn't feel as though they even had a soul at all. She could hear it chasing behind her and heard when more joined it, could feel the wind from them swiping at her and looked back to see that they was not really reaching for her, but for her back that Shippou was in.
As she ran she pulled her pack around to the front of her and held it to her chest, opening it and pulled her kit out by his tail and threw the sack behind her without stopping. There had been a bit of food in there and some cloths, but none of that mattered. She heard the monsters behind her stop and run back a little ways to her back and looked back to see what they was doing. There was 3 of them bent over the bag, their legs was a strange thing, they bent backwards and their feet was two large toes with sharp claws on the ends. One of them was ripping though the stuff in her bad as if looking for something and sniffing the things that it would pull out before one of the others would snatch it from it to do te same.
When they looked back towards her she had made some distance, but had run into a clearing so was still in sight. 'Shit!' Her mind supplied her as they started the chace again. She could feel her kit shaking and the tears wetting her shirt.
She only held him tighter and they made it back into the tree line, but it was over grown, and she took a tumble, or more like she hit face first and skid a couple of feet, but she had made sure to land in a way as not to harm Shippou, but it wouldn't matter anyway because before she could even try to get up those monsters where right on her tail. "Shippou, run! Change to a bird and fly, quickly!" She told her kit, even if she stood to run they would catch her, but he could get away.
Her thought closed up and tears streamed when instead of doing what he was told her clutched to her chest, burying his face into her. "NO!" He screamed and a burst of fox-fire flared up all around them just in time to burn on of the monsters that tried to rip her back open with its clawed fingers. But it didn't kill it, or deter it, it simply started a quick a vicious attack on her, thankfully the fox-fire seemed to work as a barrier that burned it while the others circled around them and waited for their chance.
But this could only last for so long and when it was finally able to get a hand in just long enough to leave a couple slashes across her back and between her own scream and the smell of blood the others lunged for them and the firewall fell As Shippou screamed. This was it, this was as far as they was going to make it. It was over.
AN:
I know I know! I've been gone forever, but I had no computer until now so had no way to post! I promise I didn't forget about my other story!
I know that it's there and unfinished, and I was working on it when I came up with this idea, but I couldn't come up with anything for that one, I think I'll be completely redoing the whole thing but for now I wanted a fresh start, something to try and get be back into the swing of things. After all it has been awhile since I was able to write anything, I'm sure that I've gotten pretty rusty.
Now, please read and review! I want to see what you guys think og this one, I've never really done anything like this, horror and survival is just something I've enjoyed reading but have never had the chance to write it so I hope it's okay so far. :3