Song of Death
I've got some sad news, because of my school work; I need to slow down on my updating. I'll try to have a new one each week, and I'll try to make them longer. I own nothing but Kirie.
Last Time:
I wake up and my body is stiff and cold. I walk down to the river and swim for a while, to try to clear my mind. When people say, go to your happy place, the only thing I can imagine is under the water, where the world is calm. All noises disappear, and you just exist. Nothing you do can change the calm state of this water, splashing destroys the calmness for around a second but it just reverts back to normal. I sit at the bottom of the calm river for a long time, eventually running out of air and passing out.
Now:
In my suspended animation, I see a figure floating towards me. She has long, dark blue hair that floats up all around her, and is wearing light fabric over her kimono. 'Hello child', her voice says in my head, 'my name is Yumi. You are my descendant'. She tells me.
"What do you mean I'm your descendant?" I ask her suspiciously. I'm surprised that I can talk underwater, I guess it's just because I'm in a dream.
'Your father was a youkai, and he was my great, great, great, great grandson. He had you sealed, in hopes that you could live in peace among the humans. Unfortunately for him, you have a rare power that skips generations at a time; this makes you extremely powerful and volatile unless you learn to understand it. I was the last one to have it, but I was trained since birth to understand it,' she tells me.
"So, what? Am I going to have to train for years to control it?" I ask.
"Unfortunately, it is not quite that simple. You're powers have already fully matured in your seal, and they are slipping out. The only way for you to continue living is if we give you my memories of learning and then remove the seal,' she says.
"That's not simple because…?" I trail off in questioning.
'Your memories of childhood will be tampered with. I have no idea what you will forget, but it could alter your personality exponentially,' she sighs.
"What could I forget?" There are a lot of things I am really not willing to forget, like my mom and brother.
"Things from birth to around age 13, because that was how long my training was. Although, you cannot refuse; this is the only way for you to survive.'
"Okay, agree and I could forget up to age 13, disagree and I die. That's what your telling me?"
'Exactly, your answer child?' she looks at me expectantly, her silver eyes glowing.
"Well, I have to agree," I say.
She smiles, 'This will not take long.' Then she presses a cold hand over my eyes. In my head, flashes of memories of learning how to access my powers, what the powers mean, what I am, and finally learning the song flash in my head. It seems that I've just lived 13 more years, but only a second has passed.
"What does it all mean?" I ask, already knowing the answer, but needing to hear it right from her mouth.
'We are water demons, similar to what you'd call 'sirens' where you come from. We have the power to call songs though. These songs enable us to control whoever our target is. You and I have an extra power of calling back life into a body that is dead, or almost dead. This makes us much stronger than other youkai,' she explains. She looks at me and then says, 'It is time for us to remove your seal. This might be painful for you, I apologize."
Before I could respond, she puts a strong hand on my skull. I scream out in agony, it feels as if my body is being shredded in two, and then sewn back together. The pain continues with a burning sensation in my soul. Then, abruptly, it stops. I breathe a sigh, and then my body is hit with what feels like lightening. I go rigid as power starts to fill my body. Everything stops, and I can feel a power stronger than that of what are in Yumi's memories. I look at her and smile.
'You look more like a member of our family now,' she says and I tilt my head in confusion. She snaps and a large mirror appears, and I see my physical appearance has changed. My hair lost its old streaks, now it is a dark cobalt color. My eyes grew slightly larger, and the green disappeared, leaving them a molten silver color. My hair seems longer, wavier, and is now all one length, with the exceptions of my short side bangs. My soft features have smoothed out and become a bit sharper, making me look beautiful. I still have piercings, but the earrings themselves have become prettier and compliment my face. Some of my tattoos have disappeared, leaving shimmery silver bands where they once were. My wristbands were changed into silver and platinum bracelets. My clothing changed to an aqua green kimono with dark blue wave like patterns and a white obi with metallic silver swirls.
"Why did I change like this?" I ask in amazement, still staring at my appearance.
'All sirens are exceedingly beautiful. This is how you were meant to look,' Yumi explains. 'Now, you must go back to the land of the living. By the way, when you get back, your tail will appear, it will replace the bottoms of your swimming suit. When you get out of the water, your legs will come back along with the bottoms of your swimming suit. Goodbye, my child.'
She disappears before I can say anything. I close my eyes, and slowly wake up underwater, back in Feudal Japan under the river. My hair seems to slight be dark cobalt and most of my tattoos replaced, so I figure I look the same as I did after my powers awakened in that dream. I look down, and I do have a fish tail! It's a bit off putting, but I like it. It has a base of silver, with blue, green, and blue-green thin wave like stripes. It seems to look how a mermaid's tail was portrayed in movies, except the fin was gauzier at the end, and a bit longer. I test it out, and am delighted at how fast I can now move. My movements are more silent and fluid. I then realize something that is quite strange to me, I can now breathe under the water. I decide it's time to surface again, and let Kagome and the others know that I'm okay.
I walk out of the water (my legs came back yay) and am about to change into my clothes, when I realize all the clothes I brought have been changed into various kimonos. I chose the one that looks like the one I had in my dream, it was where the clothes I had been wearing used to be folded up, and then walked back to the village. Surprised I knew how to put on a kimono? Yeah, I am too. Apparently, I got more than training memories from Yumi.
I formulate a plan of how to explain my change to everyone as I walk back, but I don't have to. "You have your demonic appearance now!" Kagome shouts at me as I walk into the clearing they were waiting for me at.
"Yeah," I say sheepishly, "my ancestor, Yumi, came into a dream of mine, taught me how to control my powers by giving me her memories, explained what I am and what my powers are, and then unsealed my powers. It was pretty eventful." I half listen to my now melodic voice as I explain it to her.
She stares at me for a bit, before giggling, "Your hair matches Bankotsu's eyes."
I blanch, "What!" My face pales further than it already is as I grab at my hair, and realize she's right. "Jesus Christ!" I shout. "Now I have something in common with that damn fool!"
"Who're you calling a fool?" I hear the voice of my favorite murderer say. I swear mentally before turning to look at Bankotsu. He openly stares at me before stating, "Damn, you got sexy."
My mental health snaps, and I remember one of my new favorite songs. I start singing it in a hauntingly beautiful voice, and he looks alarmed as I force him to smack his head on a tree a couple times. I stop and laugh, "I'm renaming that to the Song of Retribution!"
He growls at me and Kagome asks, "You could control him?"
"Yep, I have various songs to do various things. I have one that can make it rain, one to summon creatures, one to control my target, etcetera etcetera. It's quite useful," I grin. We laugh and Bankotsu growls again. "Damn, I thought Inuyasha was the dog! Speaking of Lassie, where is everyone?"
"Right here you damn wench. Stop calling me Lassie," he growls.
I ignore him and focus on my attention on another. I run up and hug Jakotsu and say, "You're still my favorite! I love gay cross dressers! A lot of my friends back home were gay, and I loved them!" His eyes widen in confusion and slight fear. "We should be great friends and spend lots of time together and travel together and we can talk about boys and killing people and bringing them back to life and just have a great time!" I ramble.
"Somebody, please explain why this creature has attached itself to me and what exactly it is saying!" Jakotsu says. "Better yet, someone get her off of me!"
"You're so mean!" I wail, and hug him tighter. Mentally, I'm laughing. This is what I'd always randomly do to my friends when I get overly stressed, and Jakotsu reminds me so much of my best friend Minda, that I can't help it. Of course, Minda was a girl and not gay, but they look somewhat similar and act a lot alike. Minda hated almost all girls, except me. Although, she thought my outbursts were funny. I get off of him finally and apologize, explaining why I did that. Jakotsu looks slightly miffed, but doesn't attack me.
"If I was in a whole new environment and someone reminded me of big brother, I'd probably attack them with love as well," he says.
"But I meant it when I said I want to be friends!" I then tell him happily.
A lot of people roll their eyes and Kagome asks a very important question, "Where are you guys going to go now?"
"Can we travel with you guys for a while?" Bankotsu asks after a few minutes of debating. Kagome agrees after forcing Inuyasha to be quiet, by force might I add. We then set off to defeat Naraku and find the jewel shards.
Yay! That was really long and took me forever to write! Please review, oh and by the way, thanks to everyone who told me about my faux pas. Chapter 4 is now chapter 4 instead of chapter 3 like it used to be thanks ton you amazing people! Sorry, I'm really not very smart when it comes to computers so, sorry for my incompetency. If anything like that happens again, please tell me. Thank you guys for taking the time out of your days to read this, it really makes my day when I know at least one person likes my story! ^.^ Please review!