"Amar is gone!" A-01 yelled when he noticed that Amar Ma'aruf is not with him.
This made everyone wake up.
"Damn her!"
"Inuyasha! Where are you going?"
"I'm following her scent! Come on! Let's go!"
The catacombs were starting to get quiet. Too quiet for comfort. The corridors, which were filled with respawning Lossoths and Biphrons, were now quiet. No more constant growling from a Giant Lizard and the Gremlin pyromaniacs were maybe burnt to ashes.
"What's going on here?" Chris asked.
As they leave the Catacombs, the lamps that light up suddenly disappears. As the door slams behind the last one who leaves the Catacombs, A-01 and Arcueid, Sesshomaru and Alucard appears.
"Come on! It seems that Kaname had brought that boy to the Chaotic Realm!"
"CHAOTIC REALM?!" Inuyasha and the others screamed in pure shock.
"C'mon! We gotta get to the Keep pronto!"
"But how?"
A-01 pulled out his CRS-15 carbine from his backpack. He loads a grenade into the grenade launcher.
"Say hello to my little friend."
As they got out of the Underground Caverns, they took the route to the Outer Wall by the Marble Gallery. A-01 saw glass window with a Giant Peeping Eye outside. There, he blew it up, and he saw the path all the way to the keep.
"There! There's the road to the Castle's Keep!"
Kirara turned into her giant form. Kagome, Miroku and Sango with Shippo mounted on Kirara's back, while Chris and Alucard utilized their Gravity Jump technique. Sesshomaru flies on his red cloud with Rin and Jaken, and Arcueid held on A-01's backpack, and she jumps all the way to the Keep's stairways with him.
Castle Keep
They all rushed to Dracula's Throne inside the Keep, but only to find Amar Ma'aruf, sealed with magical incantations. As the seal breaks, Ma'aruf-chan falls softly on the floor. He looks at them, with his blank and frightening eyes. His heterochromatic eyes were now monochrome, only gray in color.
"Ma'aruf-chan…"
"Agunea…" He said, calling the thunder particles in a somewhat distorted tone. His voice were as if been mixed with someone else's.
From his finger, he summoned lightning to aid him.
"Agunea!" Chris yelled, imitating the same move Ma'aruf-chan made.
But Ma'aruf-chan was much faster, and the thunder from Amar Ma'aruf's Agunea strikes Chris three times.
"Go back whence you came!"
Alucard slashed Amar Ma'aruf with his saber, with him being counter-striked by his adversary's Vorpal Vortex. As Alucard got hit, he turned into mist to avoid any other lethal hits. Chris slides, and he dropkicks Amar Ma'aruf. Sesshomaru joins in, while Alucard and Chris backs off. Using Tenseiga, he slashes Inuyasha's descendant ominously, but only to find that his attacks being reflected by Amar's claws.
"Huh?"
Kagome saw something floating on Amar's head, and the green orb sure looks suspicious…
"Hydrant's Star…" He announced, but his attacks were countered by Kagome's arrow. The sacred arrow shot through the invisible green orb, and once it breaks; she heard the screams of pain.
Behind the breaking green orb, Kaname appears again.
"You've defeated him, but all is not yet lost. Count Dracula now has more power than Naraku does. He'll purify this corrupt world with the flames of Chaos!"
"Why don't I 'purify' you with lead instead?!" A-01 shoots his Desert Eagles to Kaname, only to find it was a projection of her. He then turned back to his partner. "You're okay, pal?"
"Yeah… I feel so much better now. But beyond this point only those who have enough strength can confront the Chaotic Realm…"
Sesshomaru took the idea seriously, followed by Inuyasha, Chris, Alucard and A-01.
"Amar-kun, have fun…will you?"
"You bet I will."
The room after the throne room was a dead end, but, upon examining the picture that shows a woman holding hands with herself, only the same woman in the picture is inverted, that's no dead end.
"Here goes…"
Chris warped from the Dead End to Inverted End, the starting point of Chaotic Realm. Inuyasha, Sesshomaru, Alucard and A-01 followed him after a few seconds.
"Well, this is Chaotic Realm." He said, referring to the washed out color of the area.
They splinted to individuals, later moving on to the other area, particularly where Dracula is hiding now.
Reverse Clock Tower
Slowly moving around the spike-infested area, A-01 shot every yellow Medusa Heads. It'll be nasty if he got petrified. Then, he jumped down to the safe area where there were only two Final Guards that patrols the area.
After he finished doing business with it, he marched towards the room connecting the clock tower to the Outer Wall.
King Mummy's Lair
Down at the place, which was previously Olrox's Quarters, Sesshomaru attacked all the Karasuman that infest the area with Tokujin. But it was not a good idea either, because Karasuman is immune to Dark, and Tokujin is a dark-type sword!
Frustrated, he used Tenseiga. This time, it worked like charm. As he moved on to the main room in the lair, he found an Egyptian coffin.
"Hmm…"
Not sooner after that, a mummy appeared! Sesshomaru uses his poison claws, but it doesn't do much effect. As he hit it with Tokujin, gas clouds appeared, and each time the gas nears him, he jumped out of the way, and he kept doing Dragon Wave until it's gone.
From the remains of the mummy, there was the same energy ball that Rin absorbed before. He then absorbed the ball, and then he moved on to the Black Marble Gallery, ignoring the door to the Inverted Coliseum. He slain few Ghost Dancers and Malachi, along with an Azghal.
Inverted Coliseum
Sesshomaru's choice was the best. It seems that the young Vampire Hunter was having fun excursing the resurrected Minotaur and Werewolf. In addition to that, there's the White Dragon, three Azghals and at the center of the Arena where he, Arcueid, A-01 and the unconscious Amar Ma'aruf was a Doppelganger, with the shape of himself for instance.
"Talk about cloning…"
The fight was easier said than done. It took minutes of whipping, and some of his own tricks on his copy. Finally, he took advantage of making the doppelganger go crazy, by throwing wave of daggers, a dagger's Item Crash.
"Grand Cross!"
With that, all the monsters in the area died. Chris absorbed the energy ball, and he walked or ran out of the Inverted Coliseum.
Necromancy Lab
Right after the long fight against the Forgotten Self, Alucard makes his way towards the Black Marble Gallery. He had noticed that Inuyasha had just passed by the area, judging the marks from Wind Scar inside the hallway.
Inverted Underground
Inuyasha kept finding a way he could destroy the demons. As he moved on, he reached the place where he and the others fought a Scylla Wyrm and Scylla itself. As he went down into the room, a Doppelganger of him waits inside. The only difference though, is the color of the copy's clothing. It's blue all over.
"You're making fun of me."
The copy drove his Tetsusaiga into the place where Inuyasha's standing before, but Inuyasha quickly sidestepped the attack, and he counter-striked.
"Iron Reaver, Soul Stealer!"
Inuyasha struck his claws into the copy's body. But then, the doppelganger attacked back.
"Blades of Blood!"
He managed to block the attacks with Tetsusaiga. Later, he performed Wind Scar in a flash. The copy is done for, leaving the good old energy ball, and a diamond ring.
Inuyasha explored the area, but the Catacomb's door was locked shut. He then went back to the Black Marble Gallery.
Black Marble Gallery
At the place he found the giant clock face, Inuyasha also saw that the others are waiting for him.
"Everybody is here?"
"Yeah. There are five of us."
Suddenly, the clock's hand moves to the number eight. The bell struck 13 times, and the block above their heads moved away.
"Well, shall we?"
A/N: Okay, that's chapter 8 for today. The areas in the Inverted Castle or Chaotic Realm are still upright, although it feels bit weird. There're 2 more chapters to go, and I'll wait for your reviews. TQ.