How Will I Know
Disclaimer: Hiya. Welcome to Big Gory Battle Scene 1 and only. I don't own InuYasha. Ekonika, however, is my character. MINE. Thank You. Also, she will not be joining us for some time as she is busy signing autographs with her hoof print in Vegas. (Not really)
Chapter 19: Big Gory Battle Scene
(First, a note: I'm gonna try to keep this light, but, whatever. I'm still chatty.)
InuYasha stood, bent over slightly, in the middle of a large, Tessaiga-made clearing. He held one hand to the large scrapes across his chest that were already staining his outfit. The wolf stood nearby. It had made another leap at Kagome, but Tessaiga had put up an impassable barrier, and thrown the demon back as if it were nothing. It snarled again, and InuYasha looked up at it.
"Blades of Blood!" The red disks flew towards the demon, making a glancing blow. A blade flew off towards Kagome, and InuYasha felt fear strike his heart. The blade evaporated when it hit Tessaiga's barrier, and he relaxed, even laughed. He could fight how he wanted now that Kagome was safe from anything, even his own attacks.
The demon wasted no time in attacking again, this time leaping at InuYasha from behind and stabbing his claws through his stomach. InuYasha stood still as the demon withdrew his claws, then fell to the ground. He dug his own claws into the earth, and he closed his eyes. If I can't see this demon, I'll have to sense him out. He heard a leap that seemed slow motion to him now, and it was coming at him from right above. He opened his eyes at a shout from Kagome; she didn't see the demon, but she knew InuYasha was injured.
"Kagome! I'll be fine, just watch! I'll protect you!" InuYasha sliced through the air above himself, and his hand made contact. His senses had shown him the right path, and now he was going off of instinct. He hardly realized when his nails became larger. The wolf was hindered, and landed some distance off on its feet. There was a small tear in its foreleg. InuYasha cursed under his breath, and ran towards the demon. It rolled over onto its back, playing submission, and InuYasha paused, instinct telling him the fight was won. However, some of his demon blood had taken over and drove him to kill his enemy.
That hesitation, however, might cost him his life. The wolf leaped up at the last second, and InuYasha only managed to shave some hairs off in the swing he took at it. It tore through his side as it leapt by him, then proceeded to claw at any part of InuYasha it could reach. InuYasha spun in a hurry, but it was too late; his back and left leg were torn. He barely noticed this in his desire to kill the enemy, and his eyes were beginning to glow red. He heard Kagome call his name, and turned toward her, his transformation almost complete.
"How about having a little faith?!" He yelled at her, and she smiled at him from where she sat on the ground.
"You can do it, InuYasha!" She shouted back, and she sat on edge, waiting and hoping, praying for InuYasha to win.
The demon had paused at this time. He studied the human girl, and the half demon that was becoming whole. He had to finish this demon off fast, or he might have a chance. As InuYasha got stronger, so did the little wolf.
As the battle wore on, InuYasha kept getting more and more torn up, until there wasn't a limb that wasn't bruised, dripping blood, and hard to move. He became more desperate, and took more to strength than strategy. After one particularly nasty blow, InuYasha landed on his back, unable to move. Kagome cried his name out, and his heart pulsed. He stood as a demon, one who believed he had to protect his girl, even if it cost him his life. As the blood dripped freely off him, he stretched his arms, opening some wounds that had dried.
Kagome's eyes had filled with tears long ago, and now they began to flow. InuYasha smelled them, and it drove him into a speed he didn't know he possessed, which could rival Koga's, even. He leaped after the wolf, and seeing its wide, startled eyes sent InuYasha into a bloodlust.
The two demons ran alongside each other, swiping and maiming, then dodging apart only to come back together and repeat the offenses. Suddenly, the demon dove away from InuYasha and towards Kagome, seeing the girl as his weakness. InuYasha headed him off, punching his shoulder just before his leap could take him within range of Tessaiga's barrier. He didn't know how much longer the barrier would hold up, and he was growing weak from blood loss.
The wolf could tell his strength was sapping, and began to jump around all the faster. To InuYasha it seemed as if there were suddenly two wolves, and they were surrounding him. He disregarded his injuries that were re-opened, deepened, and the fresh ones. He swung hopelessly at the demon, missing, and that's when the wolf made his move. He leapt out of the air at the disoriented InuYasha, and sent him tumbling with a ram to the shoulder. InuYasha came to a halt facedown in the dirt, and the blood pooled around him. The wolf stood where he'd head butted him, twenty feet away, and panted. He began to grin as only a wolf could (a/n- ever seen Princess Mononoke? Remember the wolf-god? Like she grinned, teeth clenched, then started laughing, yeah, all that) and walked up to his prey.
As the wolf arrived at his 'deceased' prey, he lowered his head and sniffed. He began lapping up the blood, and was about to tear into flesh when something rammed him from the side. He yipped and snarled, landing on his side. He spun to face his attacker, leaving his prey behind him, forgotten. It was the girl; she'd rammed him with her own shoulder, but she'd left the barrier-sword alone, sheathed in the ground some ways away. Now was his chance to take her out too. He snarled, and it was clearly a threat.
Kagome slowly raised herself to her hands and knees, and glared at the wolf. She'd watched InuYasha get beaten, and now that he... wasn't moving, she wasn't going to let this demon eat his flesh.
"You'll pay for that." A deep voice came out of nowhere, and suddenly a hand was around the wolf's broad, armored neck. Kagome hardly dared to see whose it was; InuYasha stood, fully demon, holding the squirming creature in a death lock with his hand. He threw the wolf into the air, and his arm began to swirl with something that looked much like the Wind Scar, or his Iron Reaver Soul Stealer. However, the words that came out of his mouth were neither of those.
"Dark Wind Blade!" (A/n- yeah, crppy, but a new demon power, cool, huh?) His arm began to glow black, and his nails seemed to grow to the size of blades. As the wolf demon descended, he slashed it to pieces, and his claws returned to the normal demon size. He stood, panting, in front of Kagome. She sat on the ground, terrified, but relieved at least that InuYasha was the victor.
O My gosh… maybe it's better if I don't get reviews for this chapter. It's so bad I'm nearly punching myself. But then I couldn't write the next chapter. Maybe you'd best all forget this chapter and go be with the people who skipped it in the first place. Well, on to chapter… what now, 20? Ok.