Just When You Thought One Dead Priestess Was Enough

By: Youkai no Kira

Chapter Three

Inuyasha's eyes grew wide as he tried to escape Kikyou's lightning fast sacred arrows. Kikyou was now firing four arrows at the same time on her bow. Somthing that Inuyasha witnessed before in his past that Kikyou couldn't even master. Shippou hid himself with his fox magic and as for everyone else, helping Inuyasha out in his situation.

The red kimono that Inuyasha wore was being torn to shreds by Kikyou's arrows. Miroku cried out in pain as an arrow that was no where near Kikyou's arrows, ahot in his back in another direction. Sango's cheek was grazed by another direction of a different arrows, barely missing its mark.

Sango helped Miroku to his feet, as they struggled to get past the newy flying aroows that were aimed at them. "Kirara!" Sango shouted. Instanly, Kirara was surrounded by fire as she transformed into her bigger form. Sango grabbed Miroku and jumped on Kirara's back as more arrows were fired. Kirar dodged them as best she could as she tried to get her friends safely into the sky.

Down below was having trouble with the dead priestess. "Why are you doing this, Kikyou?" Inuyasha finally asked.

Kikyou shrugged as her eyes went to soulless. "Because I want to. You deserve to die!" At the same time, the pendant soon started to glow an aeerie orange color, as it sent out asignal, to all the other dead priestesses near her.

Ina matter of minutes, eleven more Kikyou's emerged from the dark depths of the forest, circling Inuyasha and his comrades. An arrow fired by one of the Kikyous, shot Kirara down, along with Sango and Miroku. They all came down in a matter of seconds. The Kikyou that shot the arrow laughed bitterly.

All the Kikyou's laughed in unison as thier pendants started to sparkle. Miroku struggled to raise his head as he noticed somthing strange. His eyes grew eide in surprise.

"Inuyasha! The pendant around the Kikyous neck is the Dead Priestess Pendant!" Miroku yelled as loud as he could.

Inuyasha looked towards Miroku's direction. "The dead priestess ppendant? What the hell is that?! Is it powered by the shard of the Shikon Jewel?"

Miroku winced in pain. "From my understanding, it is. But listen to this. The dead priestess pendant isn't suppose to be copyed along with the clones!"

"Why?" Sango asked.

"I don't know, but it has to be due to the fact that Kikyou is a dead priestess that steal the souls of dead women. Unfortunately, the Shikon Jewel got copyed along with it." Miroku replied.

"So...how do we defeat them?" Inuyasha asked.

"You have to kill one of them and instanly, the rest will fall. But the problem is that you need to kill the original Kikyou."

"What?!" Inuyasha screamed.

"Die Inuyasha!" All the Kikyou's in unison readyed their arroes and aimed them all at Inuyasha. The arrows started to glow a bright bluish-silver surrounded by a sacred aura.

Inuyasha unsheathes his sword and it glows with the Wind Scar forming, as all the Kikyou's fire their arrows.