Tender is the Night Chapter 3
Kagome looked up and saw strange black shapes in the sky, almost like birds, maybe crows. Only they seemed to be getting a lot bigger. A moment later, when their shapes became discernible, pandemonium broke out.
Screams filled the air as all of the students took off in every direction. The teachers didn't even try to stop them, once the raids begin it was every man for himself. Kagome did not run but stood hypnotized as some creature dropped from the sky toward her, he seemed to be wearing a sort of cape that took the shape of wings when---
"Kagome run!" It was Sango tugging on her sleeve, and she ran half-pulling her friend towards the classroom buildings. Kagome screeched to a halt, saying, "Where's Erika and Akane? I can't see them!"
"What! Wait a minute, they're over at the entrance! Hurry!"
Suddenly a horde of screaming students ran in from behind and separated Kagome and Sango. "Sango wait! Oh God, where is everyone!" Kagome screamed.
To avoid being trampled she ran with the crowd until she caught a glimpse of Sango back in the quad. She turned toward her when she heard Erika's voice on her left.
"Erika, where are you!" Kagome yelled until she saw her on the ground with one of the creatures on top of her. She ran towards her in some desperate attempt to save her when the creature's cloak dropped and it turned its head. Kagome's eyes widened in surprise.
"What the---Sesshou…Sesshoumaru…" It seemed like some fantastic scenario, she had only just seen him on TV on the news that morning. Just a few hours ago Akane had been gushing over him. For a moment she paused, forgetting who he was and thinking the whole raid a huge mistake when Erika screamed again.
"Oh God Kagome! Help me!"
Kagome snapped back to the present and reality returned. Of course he would be here, and the irony of him attacking Erika crossed her mind when she noticed some loose bricks at a nearby building. Part of the wall was smashed in as if it had been hit by a truck. She shuddered to think of what had happened there.
She ran over and picked up one of the bricks, it was surprisingly heavy, and she staggered back over the Erika with it, dodging running students. She thought she would hit him with it and when she got close she began to spin it around, aiming at his head when her grip loosened and it flew out of her hands.
She heard a sharp thunk and then a snarl. She looked up and saw Erika get up and run away towards the school exit along with a group of other students and then turned and saw Sesshoumaru a few feet away, with the brick broken in half next to him. He snarled again and she saw that his eyes, unlike on TV that morning, were blood red.
He began approaching her, going impossibly fast, and she turned and ran into the classroom building. She sprinted as fast as she could on the slippery linoleum floor when something that felt like a sledgehammer hit the middle of her back and she flew across the hall and skidded until she hit a statue at the end of the hall.
Wincing, she grabbed onto the statue for support as she got up when the same force hit her again, pinning her against the alcove the statue stood in. She caught a glimpse of long white hair and tried twisting away, but his grip was too strong. She heard a long hiss and she reaching out for a hold on the wall or a weapon, anything to escape.
She started when she felt a cold hand within her own, and realized that it was the statue's, and remembered that some over-zealous teachers had placed a statue of the Virgin Mary in that hall.
"God, oh God, someone please help me!" she thought.
She began struggling wildly, trying to escape and protect her throat at the same time, and the statue's hand broke off, and without thinking she rammed it at Sesshoumaru's throat as hard as she could.
Suddenly a black ploom of smoke came into her eyes and mouth and she staggered away coughing. She looked round to see how she had escaped when she saw Sesshoumaru clawing at his throat, and she saw that the hand of the statue had somehow stuck onto him and was burning him. She took the opportunity to run and dove out a side door onto a battlefield. Screaming students were scattered in small groups throughout the campus, and she saw more vampires dressed similarly to Sesshoumaru herding students into larger groups. With a chill she saw a girl, a student, lying on the ground besides the doorway. She saw with relief that the girl was not Sango, Erika, or Akane, and she leaned down to try and wake her up and saw the two tell-tale bloody marks on the side of her neck when the sound of a horn pealed across the school.
All of the vampires looked up at the sound away from the students they had trapped, and miraculously, lifted into the air and left their victims behind.
"Is it over?" the thought ran across her mind fleetingly when she sensed a pair of eyes glaring at her. She turned around and saw Sesshoumaru standing right behind her.
She tried to run but her legs wouldn't work, and she saw that his eyes had returned to their golden color like on TV, and he did not attack her, but only stood staring at her face. It was almost like he was trying to memorize her features when he moved. She closed her eyes and ducked, and a gust of wind blew over her and when she looked up all she saw was a rising black shape in the air.
"Kagome! KAGOME!" someone yelled, and she saw Akane running towards her. Sighing with relief, Kagome ran towards her.
"Are you okay!"
"Yes! But where are Sango and Erika? What if they're---"
"We're fine" said Sango as she and Erika came walking around the corner. Sango had a large gash over on eye but seemed fine otherwise.
"You're bleeding! Are you al-" Kagome said when Sango interrupted her. "It doesn't matter. Look."
They looked around, and saw the students milling around in disbelief. "They're…gone."
At that moment they heard sirens and saw police cars and ambulances driving in, and news trucks in the distance.
Finis
There, tell me what you think, I think maybe I could have described it more. Sorry it took so long to get out. Please REVIEW!