Chapter 30 – Naraku (2)
Kurama stood in front of the semi-unconscious Sarome. Tears of sweat pooled down his face and mixed with blood. Naraku, was in a much better condition. No blood fell down his body, but, small droplets of sweat came down his face and stuck Naraku's black hair to his baboon's fur.
"Feel my poison sink into your flesh. Feel my miasma crawl and eat away at yourself," Naraku's voice hissed. Kurama fell to one knee, blood tripping down his arms, legs, chest, and head. His entire body was covered in blood. But he couldn't do anything about it. He could feel the miasma begin to burn and kill at his flesh. "Yes, feel the pain," Naraku hissed.
"Kurama!" A voice yelled. He looked up with a painful jolt of his body, and saw Shelbra, Katoma, and Tarja running. They were the only ones. "Sarome, Kurama!" Tarja yelled. She slid on her hip next to Sarome to avoid Naraku's tentacle. "Are you Ok?" she asked. Kurama nodded weakly. "Liar," Tarja stood up, and let her power consume her. Darkened clouds rolled overhead, and Shelbra, also letting her power consume her, stood next to the fox demon. "Naraku!" Tarja cried out. "Prepare to die!" Her eyes were completely silver, with no irises. Shelbra, likewise, had the iris less black. Katoma, who was moving him with grace and ease, had her eyes the iris less deep navy blue.
"Stay still," Katoma ordered, and stood up, barricading him and Sarome from Naraku. Kurama looked up at the human next to him. She was still covered in her blood, still unconscious, still breathing, which occurred to him thankfully. Katoma hunched down, as if to leap like a lion, and growled. Shelbra, on the other side of Tarja, did the same, but, Tarja stood up. She had a confused look on her face.
"What do you mean?" she barked, flexing her fingers and letting her claws grow out.
"They have both been poisoned, both flexed to me will," Naraku chuckled. Katoma motioned something to Shelbra, who nodded, and flexed her own claws.
"You know what, Naraku," Katoma said, lunging her hands forward, "I have had enough of this!" A dragon Kurama remembered as Rain, blue scales and silver eyes, no bigger than a foot long snake, now huge, lunged forward towards Naraku. Shelbra did the same, releasing a large silver dragon with silver eyes. They both yelled the names of their dragons as they escaped from the palm of their hands. "Rain!"
"Sora!" Shelbra had cried, and the dragons attacked Naraku's body. It disintegrated to a simple doll, a golem, smelling of graveyard soil and Naraku. "Damn," Shelbra cursed as she saw the doll. "How could he trick us like that over and over again?"
"He's a coward," Tarja said, turning back to the fallen demon and human. "We must get these guys to Kaede, and fast, if we are to believe Naraku's word," she whispered the last part. Katoma carried Kurama with ease and placed him on the back of Rain. She told him to take it easy, but bring him to the priestess fast. Shelbra took the unconscious Sarome and sat behind her on Sora's back.
And as Kurama and Rain lifted off, Kurama slipped into the darkness of unconsciousness, screaming Sarome's name.