Well it's finally up. Most of this chapter was done by my friend (who took a long time...). In fact, all I wrote was Kagome's fight agaisn't Kanna and the part after Naraku's barrier's destroyed.
Chapter 18 Storm
oOo Normal POV oOo
Naraku was standing in the middle, grinning, with Kagura and Kanna beside him and millions of lesser demons behind. Inuyasha drew the Tetsusaiga, the transformation from rusty old sword to powerful fang occurring as he whipped the weapon from its sheath. Kirara and Rare both hissed and transformed in twin bursts of flame. Everybody else readied their weapons as well, preparing to take the nasty demon out once and for all.
Inuyasha ran towards Naraku intending to start out the fight with a bang; the wind scar. Being the lazy demon he was, Naraku motioned for Kanna, who instantly obeyed the command and absorbed the powerful attack easily into her mirror. Sango and Miroku hopped onto Kirara's back and, with a single command from Sango, flew closer to the enemy. Sango tossed her Hiraikotsu aimed accurately at Naraku, yet it never hit its target as Kagura countered it with her dance of blades. The lesser demons charged forth as well, heading in Kagome, Rare, and Lion's direction. Kagome shot arrow after arrow, her spiritual power strengthening the attacks. Rare, who stayed near Kagome to protect her, tore apart countless demons with her massive fangs. Lion did the same, easily ripping apart the weak demons with his claws.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled, after sending off another unsuccessful shot at Naraku with his wind scar. Kagome turned and aimed her next arrow at Kanna's mirror, intending to shatter it like the last time. It didn't work…
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As much as she tried, Kagura's own attacks began to falter under the onslaught of attacks from Sango and Miroku as well as the two fire cats. While holding off Kirara by herself proved to be no problem, the both of them, Kirara and Rare, were too fast for her to keep up with. While Kagura shot off another Dance of the Dragon at Kirara and her rider, all the while dodging Sango's Hiraikotsu, Rare slipped in from the side and grabbed a hold of Kagura's arm with her powerful fangs.
Kagura shrieked, but there wasn't anything she could do, as the arm that Rare had clenched between her jaws was attached to the hand holding her fan and she had dropped it in surprise and pain. This gave Kirara and Sango the opportunity they needed to fly in, Sango throwing her weapon at Kagura aimed directly for her mid section.
"NO!" she hollered, her eyes wide as the weapon was flung towards her. She tried desperately to get her fan back, trying to shake Rare off as well, but only managed to accomplish the latter. By then, she only had enough time to get out of range of the Hiraikotsu cutting her in half. Instead, it snagged her arm.
Needless to say, there wasn't much left of it but a stump connected to the rest of her body. Kagura gasped and then let out a scream of pain.
Sango however, wheeled around, catching her Hiraikotsu and preparing for another attack. Rare stood growling at the decapitated woman, also ready for another attack. Kagura grabbed a feather from her ponytail and, in a burst of wind, flew off before she could be hurt further.
Naraku however, didn't even notice; he was too busy trying to hold his own against Inuyasha's attacks. It was fairly simple actually, considering that Naraku's barrier was pretty much impenetrable and there was no way Inuyasha was getting through, even with his red Tetsusaiga.
Although with Kagura out of the picture, Sango, Kirara, Miroku, and Rare all went to help Inuyasha take down that barrier.
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Kagome watched in horror as her arrow disintegrated and absorbed into the mirror. While Kanna's knuckles, if possible, were whiter then normal from her grip on her mirror, the fact remained that her arrow failed.
Kanna watched emotionless, even though she was almost being ripped apart inside form the amount of powerful soul she absorbed, her life had no value to her, she was a tool. The power she stole from the priestess gathered at the front of her mirror making it glow and she let it out, aiming for the priestess.
Kagome's eyes widened as she saw the attack coming and desperately tried to move out of the way. She didn't make it and the attack sent her flying back. She landed on her back painfully and laid there while her demon healing healed her. When she got up she saw her father distracting the shaking Kanna, who didn't even seem to realize she was shaking.
Her eyes hardened and she pulled another arrow out. Just as Lion moved out of the way she let it loose, and Kanna seeing it as a main threat turned her mirror to it. This time it didn't disintegrated nor get absorbed. Instead it stayed on the outside, pushing on the mirror like it was still flying through the air. Slowly cracks started appearing on the surface of the mirror and Kanna's shaking got worse. Cracks of light started appearing on Kanna until a bright light covered her and the sound of shattering glass joined the noise filled air. When the light died down all that Kagome and Lion found were broken pieces of glass.
Both looked grim but happy. Kagome nodded to her father and ran off to where her friends were fighting Naraku while Lion kept the lesser demons away.
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Shock was apparent on the evil demons face as the barrier surrounding him shattered into pieces. His last defence was gone and now all he could do was fight back with his own strength. Everyone could tell that there was no way that Naraku was going to survive this, even Naraku himself. Fleeing was his only option left.
But even as he surrounded himself with his poison miasma, trying to create a diversion so he could escape, Kagome easily cleared a path by purifying the air with one of her arrows, enough so that the others could swoop in and attack.
Naraku did his best to fend of the attacks; he even had enough time once to summon up a demon puppet. But it too eventually fell under the power of the combined attacks.
"This is it Naraku!" Inuyasha yelled, a victorious smirk on his face as if he had already won. "It's time to take you out once and for all!"
"And get revenge for everything that you've done!" Kagome added angrily.
With Naraku's barrier destroyed, and Kagura and Kanna already defeated, all it took was one last combined attack to take out Naraku, once and for all.
As much as it physically hurt, Kagome kept all her demon powers away and charged an arrow only with her miko.
Inu Yasha put all he could into powering his next wind scar.
Sango readied to throw her Hiraikotsu while Miroku quickly plastered any part he could with oufa's charged with his power.
Rare and Kilala, knowing they couldn't help for if they got close they could be hit as well, hurried to help Lion so no lesser demons could get in the way.
They all released their attacks, mixing together on their way to Naraku who desperately tried to raise a shield to protect him. He managed to get one up before the attacks hit but it had no chance to stand up under the assault of the attacks and his screams filled the air. The mixture of holy, demon, and human (physical) power destroying, his body, his powers, and his soul.
The group minus Kagome didn't take time to bask in their win and turned to the lesser demons. While her friends and family where killing off the horde of demons Kagome ran to where Naraku had been.
On the ground, covered in ash and dirt lay a dark purple jewel. Now, a normal person would have shuddered or been corrupted, Kagome though, just picked it up like it was a normal everyday thing. The purple fought to stay in the jewel as Kagome's touch purified it but slowly the purified pink push it back until a seemingly innocent broken pink jewel sat in her palm.
Kagome pulled the small amount of shards she had and put them in her hand with Naraku's ex-chunk and clenched her fist around it. A soft pink glow surrounded her clenched fist and when she opened it the jewel sat whole palm.
She placed the jewel in a bag around her neck, there especially for this purpose and ran into the fray to help her friends finish off the rest of the demons.