And the winner of the viewer's choice battles is… Herman, Chizuru and Kagome vs Kanna!
DJM: I wanna be first!
You heard the people, they just don't like you –sticks tongue out-
DJM: -growls-
Anyway, on with the fic! Oh yeah, I don't own One Piece or Inuyasha
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Chapter 14: The nothingness Demon, Kanna's mirror unleashed!
Axe sighed as he looked around, wandering aimlessly in the forest with the half dog demon. "Damn, wonder where the heck that waterfall Dev was talking about is…" the pirate captain contemplated out loud to himself.
"Feh, you sure it's here? Ain't exactly a very reliable source." Inuyasha crossed his arms and stared at Axe with one eye open. "He could be working with Naraku still."
"Hey! Listen up, you half-breed! Devon's my first mate and if he says there's a waterfall, there better be a damn waterfall!" Axe glared at the demon.
"Don't…. EVER…. CALL ME A HALF-BREED!" Inuyasha snarled, glaring back at Axe.
"What's your problem!? You've been on my back ever since we got here! We're here to help you destroy Naraku too so just chill out!"
"WANNA FIGHT!?" The half-demon challenged.
"What!?"
"You heard me, right now!" The silver-haired dog pulled out his oversized sword. "You think you're so tough, but you just got lucky back in town yesterday, without those jewel shards I could kick your ass! You come in and start bossing my group around like you own the place!"
"Look, I enjoy a good fight as much as the next guy, but now isn't the time. Every second we waste, Naraku could be getting further and further away, save your anger for him, he's the real problem here."
"There ya go bossing me around again!" The hotheaded half-demon growled.
"You didn't listen to a word I said, did you!? Cool your heels or we'll lose Naraku's trail!" Axe sighed and calmed down. "Look, I'm sorry I sorta invaded your turf but I didn't really have a choice to come here ya know. I think we should just focus on finding and destroying Naraku and settle this later, alright?"
"Feh, fine, truce… for now." Inuyasha scoffed, sheathing the Tessaiga once again.
"Good… now where the heck is that dang waterfall?"
The dog demon sniffed the air. "I smell water… and blood."
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Chizuru narrowly dodged another beam of light as the thick white fog surrounded them. "Damn, can't see where she's striking from. I can't even see my hand in front of my face! Where the heck did Kagome and Herman go?" she twirled her daggers and looked around.
"HAH! Hit the mark!" Kagome's voice rang out as a shining light, spearheaded by Kagome's Sacred Arrow shot through the fog, dispersing it.
"Hey Priestess! Shoot over to the left a bit more!" Chizuru pointed in the direction now that they could see each other.
"Right! GO!" she fired another arrow, dispersing the rest of the fog and revealing Kanna's position.
"Excellent! There she is!" Chizuru smirked and threw her knife directly at the girl.
The dagger made contact with the mirror and stopped. The white haired girl smirked softly. "Fool…"
"What the hell!?" Herman and Chizuru stared in shock as the dagger was absorbed into the mirror that Kanna held.
"Watch out!" Kagome shouted, knowing what would happen next.
"Huh?!" The knife emerged from the mirror, redirected and flew straight at Chizuru, the Seer barely dodged, receiving a small cut on the right arm, a small trickle of blood running down it.
"That mirror can reflect attacks!?" The lobster chef watched in awe. "Then what can we throw at her that she can't send back?"
Kagome readied another arrow. "Last time, my arrow was too much for her mirror to handle and she had to release all the souls trapped inside! Maybe that'll work again!" She fired the sacred arrow into the center of the mirror. "Yeah! It hit!" She clenched a fist in excitement.
"I wouldn't celebrate just yet!" Herman eyed the mirror as it sucked in the arrow and sent it back out at the group.
Herman reacted quickly and used his shell to defend the girls. "You alright?" he nodded back to them.
"Yeah, thanks Big Red."
"Alright, let's see her deflect a fist!" The lobster merman charged Kanna, punching directly at her while being blocked by the mirror. As his fist collided with it, neither seemed to move much. Something appeared to emerge from the mirror. A fist connected with Herman's as an arm came out, growing larger until a shoulder came out until a humanoid glass figure stood before them, still holding Herman's fist.
"Da hell is that thing?" Herman blinked, freeing his fist and backing up a few steps.
"It looks like a humanoid glass demon…" Kagome stared at the newcomer. "It has no eyes!" She pointed to the demon, who only had indentations where its eyes were, having no real ocular receptors.
"Well, if it's glass… let's see how it breaks!" Chizuru threw one of her daggers at the demon, which it blocked with its wrist, seeming to have no effect.
Kanna winced softly as a black mark appeared on her wrist, right where the Seer had previously injured the demon. "I see… so instead of that thing getting hurt, she does…" The navigator observed and smirked.
"Alright then! I'll shatter it!" Kagome shouted, firing another sacred arrow from her bow straight at the demon. To everyone's surprise, a glass shell grew on the demon's back, which it used to curl up and deflect the arrow.
"Hey! That's my shell!" Herman shouted, watching as the demon sped at him like a cannonball, narrowly dodging his own copied attack. "Oh, that is soooo cheap!"
"When Herman attacked the mirror, the demon must have been able to copy his attack!" Chizuru growled, looking for another angle to attack at, finding none with the speeding glass boulder of a demon.
"It must have the ability to absorb demonic energy…" Kagome readied another arrow to fire at it.
"But I'm not a demon!" The lobster chef shouted as he ran, being closely followed by the curled up demon.
"Merman must have enough in common with demons here in order for it to absorb." Chizuru nodded.
"Well that's all very nice… but could one of you girls… I don't know… HELP ME!?" Herman shouted as the demon was gaining on him.
Kagome nodded and fired another arrow, bouncing off the demon's shell. "It's no use! I can't break through that thing!"
"Alright then, time for a new plan." Herman turned around and rolled up in his own ball, speeding towards the demon. The two shells clashed fiercely, creating sparks between the two.
A flash of light flew towards Herman as another blast from Kanna's mirror came towards him, causing him to have to uncurl from his shell and grip the glass opponent's rolling form with his claws instead, straining from the momentum. "Well that's just great…" The merman mumbled under his breath while slowly sliding forward in the dirt as the glass demon continued to push against his fists.
"We have to attack its weak point…." Chizuru put her finger to her chin in thought.
"It's a fricken shell! It doesn't have a weak point!" Herman shouted over to the two, who were annoyingly in a strategy session while he was fighting.
"I mean we've been going about this all wrong." The Seer turned to the white-haired girl, Kanna and pointed two smaller daggers at her. "She's controlling the demon, so we should take her out and the demon will fall!"
Chizuru threw the two knives high up into the air. "DAGGER RAIN!" She shouted as the two began to break apart, splitting into what looked like hundreds of tiny blades which rained down on the girl (hence the name). Kanna held the mirror up, absorbing some of the blades but missing others as the cut across her clothes and hit her, creating cracks in her skin along her face, body and arms.
"Look at her skin! She's cracking! Is she made of glass too?" Kagome shouted as the girl held the mirror outwards again, all of the blades that had been absorbed being reflected back at the two, sweeping them up into the flow of weapons.
"Chizuru! Kagome!" Herman's eyes widened on his eyestalks as he pushed the demon back quickly and ran over to where they were attacked. The two girls fell backwards, covered in scratches, eyes closed in pain, but with no injury that looked fatal. The glass demon uncurled after its confrontation with the merman and began walking over to the group of three.
The lobster merman looked from Kanna to the demon and then back at Chizuru and Kagome. "You two better get up soon, that's all I can say." He got back into a fighting stance as another blast of light came from Kanna's mirror. Herman grabbed both of the girls and leapt out of the way just in time.
The class demon then came running straight at Herman. "GET OUT OF MY WAY!" He quickly put Kagome under his shoulder and slugged the demon hard in the jaw. The glass man flew backwards and skidded a few feet into the dirt. A crack appeared on Kanna's cheek where he had struck the demon.
"Herman, set us down." Chizuru winced. "I think I have a plan to beat her after all…" She slowly put her feet onto the ground as Kagome kneeled and weakly stood up. "Just keep that demon off of us and we should be fine." She looked to the glass demon that was slowly standing up a few feet away.
"Heh, gotcha." Herman ran towards the demon and locked fists with it to hold it off. "No way are you getting through." The lobster merman gave a small smirk as the eyeless glass demon growled.
"Alright, Kagome, I need to see something, fire your arrow straight into the mirror one more time." She huffed, keeping her eyes locked on the white-haired girl and on her mirror.
"Right!" Kagome readied her bow and shot another arrow, firing it at the mirror, once again it was shot back, making both injured girls dive out of the way.
"You girls alright?" Herman looked over, momentarily distracted while the glass demon slammed its fist straight into Herman's face. "Damn, cheap shot." Herman grinned and punched it back, causing more cracks on Kanna as they exchanged blows. Herman winced and doubled over as one shot got him straight in the stomach. "Damn, hope that bought them enough time." He winced as he was barraged with more of the demon's fists and fell over beaten into the dirt.
"Did you see what you needed? Because that thing's heading our way!" Kagome shouted, pointing at the glass demon as the girls got upright again.
"Yeah, when the mirror reflects your arrow, it reflects it slower than when it did my knives, even though there were more knives when I attacked. This means that your arrow puts more stress on the mirror than it's used to, just because it doesn't break the mirror on its own doesn't mean it has no effect. My theory is if we use your arrow and something else, we can break that mirror and get rid of Mr. Ugly over there." The navigator said quickly and nodded.
"Uhh…. What?" Kagome blinked.
"You just fire your arrow and I'll handle the rest."
"Alright, better hurry up, I only have one arrow left." The girl pulled out her arrow and put it in her bow.
"One's enough and-Watch out!" Chizuru pushed them both out of the way as the glass demon's fist came crashing down, breaking the ground beneath them. "Better hurry this up girly, that thing's getting too close!"
"Right! Hit the mark!" Kagome once again shot her arrow into the mirror, allowing it to be absorbed.
"Take this!" Before the mirror shot the arrow back out, Chizuru threw the dagger she kept across her chest directly into the mirror, surprisingly it didn't draw the knife in, the dagger seemed to stick and the mirror cracked all around it. Kanna's eyes widened in terror as her skin also cracked and the glass demon began to break apart. In a bright flash, the demon disappeared and the mirror rejected the arrow and the dagger.
"What's happening?" Kagome shielded her eyes from the bright flash.
"The mirror's overflowing, it has to release all of its power or it will break and Kanna will die." Chizuru threw another dagger into the light but it was too late, the light faded and Kanna was gone. "Damn, she escaped."
"Oh well, at least everyone's alright." Kagome sighed and sat down in the dirt, relieved that the fight was over.
"Speak for yourself." Herman mumbled to himself, also sitting up, looking over his wounds from the fist fight with the glass demon.
"A girl made of glass… what else are Naraku and his incarnations capable of? I'm worried about the others." Chizuru looked up into the now lightening sky now that the white mist of Kanna had full dissipated from the further reaches around them.
"I'm sure they'll be fine, let's start heading back, it's obvious that this was a trap and we're not going to be the ones to find Naraku so let's get going." Kagome stood up and looked over Herman's injuries, helping him to stand up and begin walking.
"Yeah, I'm sure everyone will be alright…. Not like they would do anything stupid or… oh no… they're doomed." They all gave a soft chuckle as the three of them walked off to the distant horizon.
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Sorry if it was a bit late, been a little busy with everything going on plus had to do a lot of research to pull this one off. And if you're not sure about Kanna being able to create glass demons, check out chapter 475 or so in the manga. Please read and review!
DJM: Get out of my way you slow wolf!
Koga: You get out of mine, love-poet!
Kagura: -sweatdrops- Are they fighting me or each other?
Koga: You'll never understand! I have to destroy Naraku and protect Kagome!
DJM: Someone to protect…
Kagome: Next time! Kagura's dance and Koga's painful song!
Kagura: I'll have you both dancing in my wind…