"Well
all right, I think that we should go now, Syaoran-chan..." Yumi
said
"Don't call me that, please..." Li responded to Yuni's
informalities
"Oh, SORRY...Syaoran-KUN" Yumi retorted.
"..."
"Well you ready?"' Kero asked as if to stop the fighting
from progressing any further than it had already.
" Yes."
"Yeah, been for, like, EVER."
" Okay then... here we
go..."
"KYAAAAA!!"
yelped
Yumi
" Hey... Yumi-san...umm where are we...?"
" Err... I
was going to ask you that same question..."
" it's really
dark in here... I... don't like it... I smell a bad aura..."Syaoran
said with his nose wrinkled up like a dog that's just smelt
something bad.
"Smell...?umm anyway... I... see a brightly
glowing light over there... don't you?"
" Uh no, I' m
afraid not..."
"Umms okay... I must just be imagining
it...hmm...any way can you find a door..?"
"I... I think were
underground..."
"WHAT!?!?!?!?"
" yeah... defiantly...
it smells really earthy... but also...kinda like blood...it's not
very strong though..."
" OH, like THAT'S any
consolation... since when could you smell stuff that I couldn't...?
I never sensed any particular abilities of that sort from you..."
"
well I don't think that I actually ever DID have any before... umm
I think that my eyes are adjusting to this dim light..."
"really?
I still can't see much, save for that faint glowing that doesn't
seem to want to share it's light with us..." Yumi tried to
explain
"Yumi-san, I still don't have any clue what light your
talking about..."
--"alright, this is stupid... and the
readers are probably thinking 'oh, great just WHAT did I get my
self into..? BORING!!!' soooo umm I'm going to liberate them by
actually TRYING to get us out!"--
--"umm, Yumi...what
readers...?"--
"Err... Yumi-san...just what are you trying to
accomplish..?" Syaoran asked while staring at Yumi warily trying to
scale up the heavily packed dirt walls that they were surrounded
by.
"tying to get out... I've got a hunch that this, this is a
well."
"do you want me to follow you..?"
"no. wait for
me to get out, and be ready to catch me... because I can't exactly
see perfectly up here..."
"...do you think that I can catch
you...you do look kinda heavy..."
" yeah I know that
you can, or at least you better!"
"ooh, I'm so scared."
"You'd bet-WHOA!!!" Yumi said as she feigned falling,
strategically dropping some dirt on Syaoran's head.
"what
the-- Yumi! why did you just drop dirt in my ear!?!"
"sorry, I
wasn't aiming for your ear... just your head...what, were you
looking up at me sideways..?"
"umm no, I wasn't...my
ears...are..."
"your ears are what? small? dorky? lopsided?
animated...?"
"no never mind... just get out and get help,
okay..?"
"umm... okay Li-kun"
"hurry...just go..."
Syaoran said as Yumi continued to ascend the walls of her earthen
prison, and soon was out of Li's limited line of
sight.
As Yumi was close to reaching the top of the well when one of the smooth, rounded bars she was using to help climb up the dense walls... kind of well popped out from the wall. It was then when she realized just exactly what it was that she was holding on to... and why she had seen that glow. A small shard of some gem was stuck into a bone...a freakishly large bone...and for the first time in a long time, Yumi was afraid.
Because, it made Yumi recall an old saying, a sort of 'myth', if you will, it goes like this... "Either because of love, or out of foolish curiosity, human transmutations are attempted, and when these attempts all backfire...a different life is created...a being that has it's own body and mind, but no soul. This is how the damned are born.. this is a homunculus!"
well obviously, it was just a bunch of
nothing, but still... how could a just god create such an
abomination...? and this shard... it.. it's kina mesmerizing...and
to dangerous to just leave here... Not with Li-kun... Yumi thinks to
her self as she pocketed the shard, and continues to clamber out of
the well, arriving in a clearing surrounded by a dense forest... it
appeared as if tomorrow night would be a new moon...
"no wonder
it's so dark..."she said to her self...
"SYAORAN-KUN!!! I'M
AT THE TOP NOW, AND I'M GOING TO GET HELP!!!"
"My
god, t-this forest it's...It's HUGE..." Yumi said as she was
hacking her way through the thick underbrush. "how am I going to
find my way to a town if this forest won't end?" she stated aloud
"whoa... what was THAT?" she said when she saw a black shadow in
the trees
"H-hello...?"
the shadow disappeared... had it
even been there to begin with..? Yumi didn't know, but one thing
was for certain... she felt a strong aura in the vicinity... a
demonic aura.
'Kero! wake up! I need your counsel on
this...'
yawn
'whaddya want..?'
'do you sense
anything? I think that there's something... evil ... around here.
what do you think that we got our selves'' into..?'
'I
don't know, Yumi... I'm still pretty tired form that
transportation... I can't... wait what was that..?'
'did you
sense something!?'
'no, but you're fun to tease.'
'UH!
I'm serious Kero!'
'I'm going to sleep okay?'
'fine,
jerk'
well, that was a big waste of time... she's not the one... I could have sworn that she was Kagome... hmm... is that... I see maybe all is not lost... she poses a Shard from the Jewel of four Souls it should be easy to take... it's loose on her body. good.
Hmm...
I still think that someone is following me... but it could just be
this forest... it seems to be saturated with evil auras.
" And
one of them is coming from ye pocket, dear."
" EHHHHHH!!!?"
"
No need for ye to be alarmed, I'm only an old priestess from the
local village. you look like Kagome... she has the same clothes..."
"
oh..." Yumi said relived that the woman was not a demon, and that
she found a solution to her problem. a village. " Yeah, I'm one
of her classmates."
"... well ye should not be out in the
forest at such a late hour."
"umm-okay thanks... but why are
you out by your self?"
" some of the villagers said they saw a
strange light coming from the Bone Eater's well"
"the 'bone
eater's well'...?"
"Child, how did you get here..?"
"umm
well I'm not exactly sure... my friend Li-kun, and I were wandering
around Kagome's house... and then It all went blank... we woke up
in a big pit..."
" aye. that be the well I was talking
about."
"... that was a well...? oh.. well I was throne off by
the lack of water..."
" we'd best be going... many demons
are beginning to pick up on that Shikon Jewel shard of yours."
"... Reh? umm I've be meaning to ask--"
"Quiet. come
now this old lady is quite tired"
"umm okay which way is the
village?"
"Yumi..?
...I'm hungry..." Li mumbled.
"oh,
wow... you all are so nice! you barely know me, but you have kept me
warm, and safe, and feed me well... Thank you so much!!!"
" it
is the least we could do, friend of Kagome."
man, I'd hate to
be here when they find out I've no idea who Kagome is... I hope she
doesn't come back while we're here'
" Please, Call me
Yumi."
"okay Yumi, then... will ye be traveling soon? or do
you wish to stay here? ye are welcome to ether. "
"Well... I
have a friend that is still stuck in that well. do you think that you
could help me get him out?"
" I'm afraid not, dear...have ye
not noticed, all the men of the village are out pursuing a demon, or
tilling the fields."
" B-but, he's been out there all night
and half the day!"
" He is a man, he can get through it. help
toughen him up a bit."
"... okay umm will they be back by
nightfall?"
" Aye, they should dear... I will gather a rescue
team for tonight."
" Thank you,
Kaede."
"took
you long enough!!" Li said exasperatedly
"I'M SORRY,
LI-KUN!!! THE VILLAGE MEN WERE OUT ALL DAY, SO I COULDN'T
GET
HELP... KAEDE, SAID IT WOULD BUILD YOUR CHARACTER!" Yumi yelled
down to a weary Li, whom just glared at her, not that she could see
him of course.
" well?"
"COMING, shesh..."
"herd
that, hurry, it's almost night!"
"how could he..?"
it
took till the middle of the night to get li out, apparently he's
heavier than he looks... strange though, he weighed considerably less
once the moon rose...
"Man, why did you take so long... hey,
why are you laughing?"...oh, shit... my ears...!
"look, I
don't know how I got them... Or why my hair is this long, let alone
the color, so please don't laugh..."
"I can't... stop...
laughing !!!! ha ha hah!!! I mean... a red... well what ever that
is...not quite a hakama..."
"what?"
"your clothes...
they're way to big..."
"er... aren't you curious about my
ears...?"
"why? didn't we cover that in the hell
hole..?"
"umm...?"li sat there with a quizzical look on his
face slowly reaching up toward his head feeling his completely human
ears... as raven colored bangs fell in front of his sheer blue eyes.
All features that he was previously unaware of. and, he knew quite
well what he looked like after Yumi left. silver hair, that caught
the sunlight like nothing else, Brilliant golden eyes that contained
a secret tomb, Snow white ears that could hear for miles... fangs
sharp and elongated, like demons and vampires of legend, claws that
could manipulate blood like knives, and a sword made of bone that
could cut most anything. Not even that relic remained, a rusted joke
of a sword was left in it's place. what had happened? Li was sure
of what he had seen... well he WAS stranded in a well for 24 hours!
(now how he saw his eyes... DON'T ASK ME!!! seriously, how am I
supposed to know? be creative!!)
"nice hair, it seems that
black is a favored color among this place..."
"hmm, well not
to contradict you but... well never mind..."
"bless my soul,
for a minute I thought ye be a young Inuyasha..."
"Er... well
I'm not I've never heard that..."
" hmm I suppose that
Kagome would never really admit to studying Inuyasha anyway..."
"err okay.."