CHAPTER 4: Phantom and Sango
"Kirara! Kirara, where are you?" Shippo cried.
"Kirara!"
"I don't get it. Why Kirara ran off all in a sudden?"
"I don't know, Sango. She probably sensed something nearby."
Suddenly, both Sango and Shippo could hear rustling in the bushes nearby.
"Maybe that's Kirara!" Shippo said as the young kit ran towards the bushes, but Sango stopped him.
"There's no way that the rustle would be her. Get out of the way, Shippo."
The young kit nodded and ran away from Sango's line of sight.
"Hiraikotsu!" The demon slayer bellowed, throwing the large boomerang at the bushes.
However, instead of coming back to Sango, a hand appeared and caught Hiraikotsu deftly. A mysterious figure came out of the bushes, holding Kirara in its right hand while holding Hiraikotsu with the other.
"What…"
"I see that you had some strength, considering that you can throw this heavy boomerang with your hands." It said, letting Kirara run over to Sango.
"Who are you?"
"Phantom." The figure replied.
Phantom, as Sango saw him, was wearing a spiky helmet that covered half of his face, showing his eyes. He had a long but torn red scarf around his neck. Overall, Phantom was sporting the same short vest with an 'X', with his' grey in color. Like Leviathan and Fefnir, Phantom had almost the same design in body and the boots (With the exception of Fefnir, he's a little bulky.)
"I found your strange cat when I arrived here, and I think she likes me."
"Hold it, Phantom. I want to know whom you're working with. You're now with Naraku, aren't you?"
Phantom replied coolly. "I work for nobody except Master X."
"…"
Knowing that she couldn't keep up with Phantom, she requested for her Hiraikotsu. Later, the three of them returned back to the village where Miroku and Kaede await.
Miroku's first reaction towards Phantom was as expected. He stared at Phantom the moment both the grey Guardian Reploid and the demon slayer came into Kaede's hut.
"Well, you should know my friends better when they get here."
With the absence of Kagome, Miroku and Sago explained about their journey of searching the Shikon no Tama, which is almost complete and they had succeeded in destroying their greatest pushover, Naraku. So far the jewel had a number of shards left to complete. The previous three was received from A-01, who had jewel shards embedded in his body in the same fashion Koga does.
"Say, Phantom, are you a ninja?"
"Yes I am."
"I don't mean to dispute, but ninja's usually black. You sure had some differences." Shippo said.
"…"
"Shippo, that's enough." Sango said.
"Okay."
Suddenly, Phantom stood up and ran out of the hut. Sango and Miroku followed behind him. The three of them could see scores of demons coming their way. Even with Shippo's keen sense of hearing, he couldn't hear the internal alarm blaring in Phantom's radio.
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! ENEMY APPROACHING!
Phantom got into his ready stance before he jumped all the way up to Kaede's hut roof. Up there, he threw a slew of kunai (a.k.a. the Pandemonium Knives). Sango and Miroku followed behind Phantom to fight the demons.
"I think they're after the sacred jewel shards, Sango."
"We'll tell them by force that the jewel shards are not here! Hiraikotsu!"
The demons are too many, but with the help of Phantom, he had cleared some of them so that Sango and Miroku could take care of the rest.
While Phantom, Miroku and Sango are fighting the demons, the villagers followed Kaede into safety. Shippo joined them, as he couldn't fight like the rest of his friends.
Back at the team, the rest are having difficulty of fighting, as the scores of demons are getting large in numbers even with the help of Phantom.
That is, until Phantom could hear someone screaming in pain.
"That voice…!"
"Sango!" Miroku yelled.
Phantom was the first to arrive, and he quickly dispatched his attacks to the demons attacking Sango.
"You're okay?"
"Maybe. My waist… just got scraped, that's all."
Another demon came and attacked both of them. Phantom and Sango was thrown away, rendering the injury even serious.
"No!"
Phantom started to panic, for somewhat the first time. If he didn't finish this of soon, Sango will…
However, his thoughts are cut off when Sango put her hand on Phantom's shoulders. She came in front of the grey Guardian and got into her stance. Before Phantom could object, she persisted to fight.
"Sango! Phantom! Look out!"
Sango was about to throw Hiraikotsu when both she and Phantom was engulfed in a very bright light. The light was so intense that Miroku had to cover his eyes. When the blinding light was gone, both Sango and Phantom were gone, but they were replaced by a single figure.
"Model…PX?" Miroku said, as he had seen both Vent and Aile's Model PX before.
However, things are a little bit different… Sango was now wearing Phantom's helmet with the torn red scarf, but her vest (which is similar to Zero's) was sleeveless as opposed to Model PX. The gauntlet she's wearing is of a different design and her Hiraikotsu had gained a new form, having a sharper edge.
"Hiraikotsu!"
When she threw her Hiraikotsu, Sango noticed that her throw was much powerful than before. It sliced cleanly through enemies and was able to clear a large number of demons that way. She caught them back, clearly surprised.
"How can…"
"I don't even know, Sango."
"Sango! Miroku! Phantom! The demons are retreating! It's a success!" Shippo rejoiced., but stopped when he saw Sango. "Hey, where's Sango?"
"Right over here, Shippo."
"…"
Then, Sango left the form and fell unconscious. Phantom only looked a little tired.
"I think somebody had to explain this." Miroku said, propping Sango up to her feet.
A/N: Okay! The chapter up next is about Sesshomaru, Harpuia and Janis form the NDS game Secret of the Divine Jewel! Read on and review! TQ!