Tora-chan: Yea, I got another review. Thank you so so so so so much AngelFoxtail. You don't know how much it means to me. Everyone needs to take an example from Angel and review. Yea!

Aillas: I think we'll skip to the story this time from here.

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Last time: Vitanie paced all night and then went to the purification ritual. Leiko and Hideaki are rushing to the temple with news that the lion clan is planning an attack.

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Kagome yawned as she leaned against a tree at the edge of the clearing. Vitanie and Mani were in the center sparring with wooden swords. In other words Mani was teaching her some techniques and stances before moving on to the real thing. Sora was watching closely trying to ignore the nagging feeling that she had in the back of her mind. After standing quietly for awhile Sora turned to Kagome.

"Do you feel something odd in the air?" she asked quietly.

"What? Odd, in what way?" Kagome questioned back trying to focus her mind on the questions.

"I have to feeling that something's going to happen and I feel this tingle coming this way," Sora tried to explain with a confused look on her face. "I'm sorry I can't explain it well. I'm not used to telling people about what I feel."

"It's okay, don't worry about it. So you feel a tingle, right?" she waited just long enough to see the nod in reply. "Does it feel like a tingle from a shock or does it feel like a tickling sensation?"

"It's more powerful then the small shocks you get sometimes," she pondered. At that moment Kagome's head popped up as she scanned the woods around the clearing. They were just off the temple grounds but were still on holy ground. "The feeling is getting stronger isn't it?" Kagome asked her attention still focused on the trees.

"Yes, very much so," Sora replied before her eyes glazed grey a tiny bit. "There are a horde of demons heading this way. The spirits feel them."

"That is diffidently a demonic energy heading this way," Mani commented coming up to stand next to Kagome. "It seems we'll have to continue later," she finished before heading for the temple.

"Let's go, we should see if we can help," Vitanie said moving after the priestess.

"Vitanie wait, I feel a sacred jewel shard," Kagome called out after her.

"Then we really don't have time to lose," she heard the tigress yell back.

As Vitanie and Kagome came up to the temple they saw smoke coming from the outer wall. Inuyasha was at the gate with Mani while Hiroshi was near the temple playing a lullaby he had written to help Mari fall asleep when she had nightmares. The song actually had the affect of making all feline demons fall asleep which wasn't helping Vitanie any.

"Hiroshi, stop playing - - you're putting me to sleep!" Vitanie managed to yell as she ran forward and throw a few demons away from the temple gates with the wooden sword she was carrying.

"You stupid cat go and hide and let us take care of this," she heard Inuyasha yell at her but ignored him as she continued to try to fight even though the song was taking effect against her.

She was just about to where Sango and Miroku were fighting when she was grabbed and pulled back.

"Hey!"

"Stay out of the way. All the demons attacking are Lyjians, Hiroshi can put the asleep and end the fight faster that way," Yuki said in her ear as he set her down just inside the forest. "Let us take care of things this time around."

"Yuki you know I can't leave my friends behind to fight on there own. I'm going," she stated as she got out of his grip and ran back to the fight.

She concentrated as she ran and summoned water up to the surface just under the Lijian's feet and turned the ground around them to mud. Most of them bogged down to their knees when Vitanie summoned fire and hardened the ground around them. Once she had them stuck it didn't take long for the others to take care of the rest. She was just about to relax when she felt another wave of demonic energy heading their way.

"Hiroshi, get everyone inside the temple," Vitanie yelled as she tried to gather enough energy to summon a large blast from the stones.

"Don't even think about it you stupid tiger. I won't rescue you again if you pass out again," a voice yelled from just inside the tree line. Next thing she saw was a tawny colored tigress jumping threw the tree tops and landing next to her knocking several of the approaching lions away. "Idiot, don't waste your energy on them," she snarled as vines suddenly grew out of the ground around them and pushed the rest of the lions away.

"Leiko, why did you stop me? I could have taken care of everything just fine. And why did you bring Hideaki back? I though you were taking him home?" Vitanie asked glaring at the girl next to her.

"So you did notice," Hideaki shrugged coming out of the bushes.

"How could I not. Because unless Leiko has learned how to control plants in the last three days you're the only one I know that can do that. Now what's going on here, why are we being attacked by a bunch of Lyjians?" Vitanie ranted.

"You stupid lioness if you brought them here. . ." Yuki started moving towards her.

"You fool, I was trying to get here before them so that I could warn you!" she yelled at the wolf.

"Like I'm going to believe that you . . ."

"Will everyone stop arguing and start explaining!" Vitanie interrupted.

"Yes what's going on?" Mani asked walking up to them.

Leiko ran a hand threw her tawny hair as she sighed. "While we were near the lion village I heard rumors of an attack on this temple. A friend informed me that the clan chief found out that a Tijian would be here. From there an attack was formed. As soon as Hideaki got the supplies we needed we headed straight here as fast as we could, which obviously wasn't fast enough," Leiko finished with a huff.

"Just great, but why'd you bring the fox with you?" Yuki snarled.

"The fox dens and my family were destroyed by Rei just in time for me to return to the slaughter and fires. He said it was pay back for betraying him," Hideaki said anger starting to creep into his voice a little.

"Fine, whatever, now can we concentrate on defeating these Lyjian? Kagome where's the jewel shard you detected?" Vitanie asked looking over at the future priestess.

"On the hill top, the one in the center," she answered pointing to a tall extremely muscularly Lyjian directing the soldiers.

While Inuyasha ranged on about not knowing about the jewel shard, Vitanie thought about how she could get the 'big guy' as she decided to dub him, to come near them. That was when a thought entered her mind.

"Plants aren't going to be a big surprise now that they know you're here," she murmured looking over at Hideaki. "Hiroshi! Can you play a song that would get them to fight each other? Something that would cause discord within enemy ranks?" she asked eyeing the musician.

"Well that would be a new one," he mused. "Let's see you want discord, right? There's no guarantee that song won't work against us," he mentioned.

"True but we've never faced a bunch of angry Lyjian's before either," Mari spoke up.

Everyone turned at her voice and looked at her. Beside her stood Shippo trying to be brave as they held out Vitanie's staff, she took it with a smile. Looking down at the staff she saw the tiger and vines inlaid into the wood again reminding here that she had seen that pattern before. As she stared at it the image of Makoto popped into her head. Then she saw it in Makoto's hand was the lute that was given to her to give to Hiroshi, it had the same pattern on the face.

"Hiroshi, use your lute, for that new song I have an idea. I just hope it works," she finished under her breath.

Hiroshi looked over her in surprise at the request to use the lute. The magic that the lute produced was much stronger then the lyre, it was one of the reasons why he didn't use the lute often. With a finally shrug he pulled the lute out and quickly tuned it and stepped forward. Yuki was getting into an attack stance see that the Lyjians where about to charge. That and he didn't want to be caught off guard if Hiroshi's song didn't work.

Vitanie planted her staff firmly in the ground in front of her and summoned the power of Earth to her from the stone. She didn't release it but kept the power readily available. Just as the Lyjians began their charge Hiroshi started his song. It was clearly a battle song at first giving the impression of vast armies fighting then suddenly he hit some minor chords. Vitanie could picture a portion of an army suddenly turning on their comrades with the discord the chords implied. Just as she thought it wasn't going to work she saw some of the front soldiers turn and start to run back and attack those coming behind them. At the same time she saw Inuyasha and Yuki looked like they were ready to tear each other apart, but they seemed to be fighting it. With a sigh in preparation she let out the power of Earth that she had been holding in. She let her feeling go with it envisioning the safety of her friends. She concentrated all of her energy at her staff and felt the power draw into it and then slowly spread out in waves emitting the angelic sound of bells. As the sound continued she heard the sound her staff emitted combining with Hiroshi's was song. The power from the staff didn't seem to affect the enemy but she saw everyone in her group begin to relax and turn to watch the battle up on the hill top.

She was still concentrating her energy into her staff when she caught Kagome's eye. With a nod Kagome turned and notched an arrow. When she let it loose it flew true and straight at the Lyjian with the jewel shard. Some of the Lyjians that weren't completely under the spell of Hiroshi's lute managed to turn and run when they say their leader fall. Hiroshi see some of the enemy retreat made an end to the song causing those that had been fighting there own to stop in confusion at seeing their commander gone they looked back at the group at the temple and then ran not wanting to be controlled anymore.

"Well it seems we won," Leiko said with a smirk. "How thought that a musician could be so beneficial."

"Seriously," Hideaki breathed under his breathe.

"Well since this battle seems over I think we should go inside a rest," Vitanie said as she grabbed her staff and started forward. After two steps her knees buckled causing her to start to fall. She would have ended up on the ground if Leiko had been so close. The tan tigress grabbed her arm grabbed Vitanie's arm and kept her standing.

"Sheesh, are you ever going to learn to keep some energy for yourself? You keep up like this and Rei won't have to worry about killing you, because you're going to do it yourself," she smirked laughing at the tigress that glared back at her.

"Ah, shut up Leiko," she murmured before falling asleep where she stood.

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Tora-chan: Well that's all for now. Here's a little word of advice I will not update without some reviews. I won't even think about starting the next chapter until I get some feedback. Well I think that's all (walks away from computer)

Aillas: Man, she's serious when she doesn't get reviews, which means I'm glad that she finally got one after three chapters of silence.

Hiroshi: You don't know the half of it.

Aillas: Well we're out of here, so to all Cheerio.