Chapter 16- Assault
At the inn the others were staying at everyone was telling their own stories about how they ended up the way they were. Yusukes group had told their story about how they became spirit detectives. "So whats with that hole thing in your hand Miroku?" Yusuke asked the monk. "Yes, I too am curious about how you aquired such a strange power." Kurama added.
"Well, we told you about how Naraku tricked Inuyasha and Kikyo into fighting one another so now I will tell you my story. When my grandfather faced Naraku he burned a hole in my grandfathers right hand. Then Naraku told him that the curse would carry on through the rest of his family until he was defeated. Both my granfather and my father were sucked into their own wind tunnels because they failed to find and kill Naraku. I will suffer the same fate unless I can destroy him." Miroku finished his story.
"Yikes! Thats creepy! I wouldnt want to be sucked into my own hand!" Kuwabara shivered. "So anyway, what about you Sango?" Yusuke then turned to the exterminater. "I...dont really want to talk about it right now." Sango then stood up and left the room. "So whats with her?" The detective asked.
"It's really not my place to speak about it but lets just say she had some family trouble." Miroku said. "Yeah, I know what that can be like." Kuwabara rubbed the back of his head. "His sister beats the crap out of him." Yusuke told them bluntley. Miroku and Shippo let out a laugh before putting their serious faces back on. "Well this is much worse, but she'll tell you when she's ready." Miroku told them.
Inuyasha picked up Kiraras scent and followed it to a village. When he entered the village he looked for an inn. He found it and then against the protest of the inn owner looked in every room until he found Miroku. "Hey Miroku we have a serious problem." Inuyasha said as he ignored the dirty looks people were giving him. "Inuyasha? Whats wrong?"The monk asked. It's Kagome, those bastards kidnapped her and now they want us to bring them the rest of the jewel! If we dont do it then they're gonna kill her!" Inuyasha exclaimed.
For a few moments everyone was just sitting quietly as though they were frozen. They all had horrified looks on their faces before Miroku snapped back. "Well what are we going to do? We cant even find Naraku and he has most of the missing pieces." He said, puzzeled at what they should do next.
"Well it looks like I have no choice but to bring you to their castle." Touken said in a regretful voice. "What? You know where they are? Why didnt you tell us before? We could have stopped them a long time ago!" Inuyasha said enraged. "You dont understand! If we fight Big brother he could kill us all easily if he wanted to!" Touken told them trembling at the slightest thought of his power.
"But Inuyasha said that they would let Kagome go if we gave them the jewel." Shippo told him. "Ha! Believe me, if we gave him the jewel he would kill her anyway, and all of us at that. But we can still save her. Shippo you said you can shapeshift right?" Touken asked. "Yeah so what? How is that going to save Kagome?" The fox asked. "You'll see." Touken said.
"Big brother, this girl has a striking resemblence to that priestess... KIkyo I beleive it was, she is almost the exact likness of her." Frost said. "I know, but thankfully now that Kikyo is dead I can finally get the Shikon jewel for myself. She was the only thing keeping me from getting to it besides the Touken family but now she's gone." Big brother said, grinning evily. "Now we just have to wait for them to deliver the jewel to us and then I can finally kill them all." He said.
"Inuyasha wont give you the jewel just because you kidnapped me!" Kagome yelled up to him. "Besides, without me they cant even find the jewel shards!" "Spare me your idiotic lies you stupid girl! I've been having Spark and I was using Hydranos to keep tabs on you while I collected more jewel shards- Wait what did you say?"Big brother then asked. She did nothing but gasp at her mistake of telling him that she was the one who found the jewel shards for them."So you have some sort of special power then do you? Fine then this makes things easier for me, all I have to do is steal your powers just like I stole my fathers. Now hold still this is going to hurt... alot-"
He was then cut off by a large explosion and several screams. "What? Whats going on?" Big brother asked. Spark then appeared in the room and said "Sire there is a very powerful demon in the entrance hall. I could kill him myself but the guard demons are being mowed down like nothing. He has one arm and he is using a strange energy whip." Frost then got up and started for the door.
"I will take care of this." He said in his normal cold hearted emotionless voice. He then stopped and turned around "Sire, may I use my demon form if need be?" He then asked. "They already know we're here so theres no reason to hide our power any longer." The dark knight said. "Thank you sire." Frost then left the room with his energy surging.
Sesshomaru had just finished killing another battalion of demons and was about to attack the next wave when they all stopped and made a path for a demon in light blue armor. "Well, its about time you showed yourself. These weaklings provide no challenge." The dog demon said. "I gave you a chance to live before, but this time I will show no mercy!" Frost said as he grew the wings and tail that belonged to his demon form.
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"There it is!" Touken said as a titanic palace came into view. "Good, the sooner we get there the sooner we can save Kagome." Inuyasha said. He then sniffed the air and said "What the hell? Thats Sesshomarus scent again!" "Oh yeah, that weird guy that was trapped in the ice." Yusuke said. "He's Inuyashas half brother remember?" Shippo said. "Oh yeah..." Yusuke said recalling one of the many things that they had told him before Inuyasha barged in at the inn.
Just then they saw a giant blue and white bird fly into the air and was being followed by a giant dog demon. "Thats Frost!" "Thats Sesshomaru!" Touken and Inuyasha both said as they saw their own enemies in their demon forms. If Frost is here then Big brother and the rest of the knights are probably there too." Touken said as they watched the two great beasts continue their battle in the sky. They all then continued towards the castle entrance which was blown to peices, obviously by Sesshomaru.
"Ugh, theres so much demon blood here that the smell is making me sick." Inuyasha said as they walked through the blood stained halls and waded through the bodies of the decesed demons. After walking a long way through the bodies the group got to a large room with a painting of a giant dragonoid(A mixture of a dragon and a human) creature in red blue and green armor with a giant halberd even larger than Bonkotsus'in his hand.
"This is an interesting piece of art." Kurama said as he got closer to the wall painting to examine it. "Thats a painting of the dragon king. This was his palace until he died and it became abandoned. That is until the knights made their base here. The dragon king was a cold hearted, evil creature who would demand tribute from all the villages that used to be around here, mine included. But luckily he became ill and died shortly after. No one could defeat him, not humans or demons. Any one who challenged him was killed. My great great great grandfather told my great grandfather and my father who told it to me before he was... before he died." Touken said as he stared at the painting.
"Who the hell cares! We have to rescue Kagome remember?" Inuyasha interupted. "Right, but we have to be careful about this. If we get caught then we're as good as dead." Touken Told them."Yeah, I mean by the way you described the head guy, he sounds like he's even stronger than all my enemies put together." Yusuke said "Even with the boost Inuyasha and the others got when they came back to life isnt going to be nearly enough to beat this guy." He continued. "Boost?" Inuyasha asked. "Yeah, when Koenma brought me back to life I got alot stronger and faster. Not to mention that I got my spirit gun too. So you guys probably got stronger too." Yusuke explained.
"Alright, now Kuwabara, Kurama and Hiei will look for Kagome while we keep them busy." Touken told them. As he finished the two teams split up and continued on.
"Sire! Inuyasha and his friends are here! Should I awaken Geode?" A demon gaurd asked as he ran into the throne room. "What? No dont wake him yet. Spark! If they dont give you the jewel come back here and tell me." Big brother said. "Yes brother." Spark bowed and zapped away as usual.
"Do you have the jewel?" Spark asked the group. "Yes here it is now let Kagome go." Touken told him while handing him the remianing part of the jewel. "Wait here." Spark then Zapped away. "Do you really think this will work?" Sango asked the masked swordsman. "It wont trick them for long but it should be enough time for them to find her-" Touken was cut off when Shippo was thrown into his head by the lightning knight.
"Did you really think that you could fool the master? There wasnt any power resonating from the shard you gave me." Spark said with a smug voice knowing that their plan had been foiled. "No power? I have plenty of power you big jerk!" Shippo yelled. But he quickly retreated behind Sango when Sparks energy began to fill the room.."This isnt good. If he notices the others its all over!" Touken thought to himself while drawing his swords.
"Now this is gonna be fun. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Spark began yelling as his armor began to crack. First his fingers and toes transformed into long silver claws. Next his back exploded with spikey purple fur that had electricity flowing through it. Next his tail was revealed with more spiked fur on the top. Then he roared as his face armor shattered everywhere to reveal a feline-like mouth. After that his eyes closed for a moment and opened again to show that they had turned a bright yellow color with small black slits going verticallly through them. Finally his ears formed on top of his head and finished his transformation. His purple energy then exploded from his new body and left only a few dancing bolts of electricity around him.
"Woah..." Was all Yusuke could say after witnessing the transformation. "You guys go on I'll hold him off. Touken said. "No way! this guys mine!" A voice said behind him. Everyone turned around to see Koga standing in the doorway.
"So the little pup from before is here to fight me again. I hope for your sake that you've improved." Spark said in a deep scratchy voice." You bet I have! It took me forever to find you! But as soon as you transformed I felt your energy and rushed over here. Now I want my jewel shards back!" He told them with pride in his voice. "So you're not here to save Kagome?" Miroku asked him. "Huh? What do you mean?" The wolf demon asked confused. "These knights kidnapped Kagome and now they want us to bring us the rest of the jewel shards or the're gonna kill her!" Shippo filled him in.
"WHAT? Thats it! Now you're finished!" Koga yelled as he charged the feline demon. "Well its not the way we planned to escape but lets take it!" Yusuke yelled as he began running for the stairs.
Sesshomaru and Kholdstare had been fighting for a while now and had exhausted most of their energy and resumed the battle in their human forms. "You may have been able to increase your power but you still have no chance of defeating me." The ice knight said as he drew his black ice saber."You were never a match for me. You had caught me by surprise was all." Sesshomaru said as he drew his own sword. "Fine then I will prove that I am the strongest." Kholdstare said as he dissapeared in the icy mist just as he had done before.
The mist soon covered the entire battle field. But Sesshomaru had faced it once before and now knew how to dispatch it quickly.He began the transformation into his demon form but Kholdstare wasnt about to let his mist go to waste just yet. He then took a small bag out of his belt, opened it and threw its contents everywhere.
"Poison powder." Sesshomaru thought as he halted his transformation. "If I inhale the mist now I will most likely die. I dont even have enough energy to use my dragon strike." He then tried to think of another plan now that his first one had been thwarted. As he was thinking the numbness started taking hold as Kholdstare popped out of the mist and froze Sesshomarus chest. Then he grabbed his arm and froze that as well. He then vanished back into the mist just as quickly as he had appeared.
"Now, I'll finish you. TUNDRA CANNON!" Kholdstare yelled. Just then Sesshomaru saw a chance for an attack. "You fool, you shouldnt make any noise when you're trying to hide. It makes it easier for the predator to find you." The dog said in a cryptic voice as he shattered the ice on his arm and thrust his sword forward.
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The group had been running through hallways, slaying demons on the way for what seemed like hours. Until they finally reached a giant brown door at the end of the hallway. "This must be it!" Inuyasha said as he and Yusuke struggled to open the gargantuan door. When they got inside everything in the room was made of stone. The table, the chair, the floor, the ceiling, the walls, etc.
Strangley the earthen giant was sleeping soundly in a giant stone crib. "Good, he's asleep. We have the element of surprise on our side."Miroku whispered. Just then a demon holding a horn came into the room from a door on the other side. "So much for the element of surprise." Sango said as the demon blew into the horn waking the sleeping giant. Without warning he charged froward with a piercing battle cry.
"You guys go ahead I can take him on by myself." Touken told them. But once he said that Geode smashed his hand into the ground with a yellow/brown aura around it, sealing offf both doors with large slabs of rock. "No choice guys, get ready for a fight!" Yusuke said as he powered up his spirit gun.
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"How could this have happened?...Shiner!" Big brother yelled. Shiner then rushed into the throne room and bowed to his brother and master. "Bring me the girl, I dont want to give them the chance to rescue her before I steal her powers. "Yes master, I'll be right back." Shiner said as he rushed to the room Kagome was being held in.
"Hm...Kholdstasre, how could you be defeated so easily? If I had known that you were that weak I would have killed you along with Cyclone. And your idiot brother Volcannon. If he hadnt attacked that village then Tentou Touken wouldnt be helping them...Hydranos, you were also defeated easily. Beaten by a bunch of children, disgraceful. I should have absorbed your powers long ago. Now all I have is Volcannons armor but I still want Hiei to take his place." Big brother thought outloud. "Master! Help me! AHHH-..." Shiner screamed as he was struck down.
"Hm?" Big brother teleported to the doorway and ran towards the room that Kagome was in. All that was left of shiner was his white armor that had been thouroughly scorched and a puff of black smoke. Then he noticed that Kagome was gone as well. "Thats it! I'VE HAD IT!" The dark knight yelled,his voice echoing through the corridors of his castle. "I'll kill them! ALL OF THEM!"
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