-Ten-Faced Paladin
Inuyasha Maximum By Ten-Faced Paladin Chapter 1: I am Predacon
Inuyasha was in a bad mood. A worse one than usual. He and the others had followed Kagome as she found the trail of another jewel shard. What they had found was a village cowering humans who told them about a mantis demon. It turns out that the demon in question had started showing up amout three months ago. It came at night and did what demons did best. It stormed into the village, destroying everything that got in its way, killed whatever it could reach that had blood in it, and it ate whatever it killed. After it finished feasting, it would leave and come back the next night. It mostly killed livestock, but it would kill a human or two whenever it got the chance.
It was needless to say that Kagome, Miroku, Shippo, and Sango insisted that they stay to help the villagers. Inuyasha tried to argue, saying that the jewel shard was more important, but he ended up getting a 'sit' from Kagome. His mood only worsened when Koga decided to stick his stupid nose into his business. He called it 'checking up on Kagome,' but it was actually an excuse for him to flirt with Kagome. The last straw was when the mantis demon, probably smelling so much demon blood in the air, came to the village and ws apparently on the warpath. Inuyasha hadn't even been able to draw the Tetsusaiga because it caught them all by srprise. They only thing that didnj't aggravate the hanyou was that Kagome announced that the jewel shard they were looking for was in the thing's head. The only real problem was getting the damn thing out.
"Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!" Inuyasha roared as his claws raked across the demon's hide.
The attack only scratched harmlessly off of the demon's carapace. It really didn't even seem to notice that Inuyasha had attacked it.
The demon itself was huge. It really did resemble a mantis. It's armour was dark green and was plated across it's body. It had six legs that were as thick as tree trunks and left deep imprints in the ground wherever it walked. It's front arms were resembling scythes with how the light reflected off of them. The blades were jagged and sharp enough to cut through steel.
Inuyasha leaped back from the demon with his usual sour look on his face.
"Dammit," he cursed.
"Do you really call that fighting?" Koga mocked from where he stood next to Inuyasha. "Let a pro teach you how to do it."
Koga sprinted towards the demon with all the speed he could muster. The jewel shards that he had in his legs boosted his natural speed and allowed him to run as fast as the wind.
"Take this!" Koga roared.
He leaped into the air, with his right foot extended. He aimed a devestatin kick at the demon's side. THe kick was far from devastating, but it did mnage to knock the demon off balance for a few moments. Growling, Koga kicked himself away from the demon and landed on the ground.
"You were saying?" Inuyasha asked with a smirk.
Above them, Sang and Kagome rode atop of Kilala in her giant cat form. Thye were bombarding the demon with the Hiraikotsu and sacred arrows. The giant boomerang managed to crack the carapace and the sacred arrows actually managed to blow holes in it. These the demon noticed, however, with the power of the sacred jewel shard in it's head, the wounds healed quickly.
Opposite of Inuyasha and Koga, Miroku was fighting the demon in his own fashion. His staff was proving inneffective while it's aura was too strong for his talismans and they burned upon contact. Shippo was merely huddled in Kagome's bicycle basket which was leaning against a building a short distanve away.
"Dammit," Inuyasha cursed as he saw how ineffective his friends attacks were, "Time to get serious then."
Inuyasha gripped the hilt of his sword Tetsusaiga. The blade forgeed from his father's fang and held the power to kill one hundred foes in one strike. Inuyasha pulled the sword out of the sheathe and it generated a blast of light. The Tetsusaiga quickkly transformed from a normal sword to a giant curved fang. Inuyasha grinned as the demon took notice of the weapon and how much demonic aura it was giving off.
"You're mine," Inuyasha smirked.
The demon turned to face Inuyasha and glared at him through it's red compound eyes. Inuyasha stared back at the demon with his golden eyes. The demon unleashed a hiss that turned into a screeching battle cry. Inuyasha beagn his own battle roar and charged at the demon while the demon charged at him. Everyone watched as Inuyasha readied himself to slash away at the demon.
Suddenly, before the two combatants could meet, they were engulfed in a huge blast of light.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome cried
"What the-!" Miroku gasped.
"What-!" Sango cried.
"Waugh!" Shippo cried from his seat.
"What the hell!" Koga shouted in agitation.
The friends tried to peer into the light to see if Inuyasha was alright, but as soon as the light had appeared it vanished again. When eveyone's eyes adjusted again, they could see Inuyasha and the demon again. They were both stumbling blindly, but otherwise unharmed. What caught their attention was the strange black box that had appeared between them.
It was about the right size to fit a fully grown human being. On the left side was a panel with a series of flashing buttons and levers. On the top was a clear dome that allowed one to see the occupant.
Inuyasha was the first to regain his eyesight. He blinked a few times before he finally noticed the black box.
"What the-!" he grunted. "What the hell is this?"
He sniffed around the box a few times. It reeked of steel and a little like a jewel of some kind. The only other scent that was on it was something that smelled like a spider. Inuyasha sniffed closer and the buttons on the panel suddenly blinked to life and a back square that was part of the panel suddenly began showing a wierd kind of language. Inuyasha couldn't help but leap back in surprise.
"STASIS POD ACTIVATED," the boxspoke in a female voice. "BEGINNING SCAN."
A ball attatched to a rod rose from the box and began to spin. It suddenly released two large sheets of energy that stretched into the forest and above the tees.
Miroku held out his staff and tried to touch the purple energy with it. His staff went right through it and the sheet passed over him. He didn't feel any ill effects, but he didn't feel right.
"I feel that this is a bad omen," he remarked to himself.
The purple energy kept moving in a large circle, passing over everything in it's reach. It passed over Sango, Kagome, and Kilala, but nothing happened. It passed over Inuyasha and Koga, but still nothing happened.
"Do you have any idea what this thing is?" Sango asked her frined from the future.
Kagome shook her head, but she had different thoughts.
'This thing seems like t's a computer of some kind," she thought. "but how did a computer get here in the feudal era?'
The demon was still stumbling around blindly while the energy passed over it. When the energy passed over it, something finally happened. The energy returned to the small sphere and it settled back down into the panel.
"SUITABLE DNA LOCATED," the box spoke."BEGINNING RECONSTRUCTION."
The box began to hum. Miroku's feeling of a bad omen increased as he readied his staff for a second enemy to fight. Samgo gripped the strap on her Hiraikotsu for comfort. The demon was all but forgotten as the box seemed continued it's work.
"BEAST MODE SELECTED," the box finally spoke. "BEGINNING REPLICATION."
The box stopped humming and the clear dome could be seen filling with steam. After the entire dome was filled with steam, something inside began thrashing. It pounded against the insdie of the box several times. Inuyasha lifted the Tetsusaiga ashe prepared to face whatever was going to come out.
"Just what's in that thing?" asked Kagome too no one.
"Whatever it is," Sango replied. "I doubt it's friendly."
The thing inside of the box gave a final thrash before the lid finally came open. it opened on a hinge and the steam ejected with a loud hiss. The occupant of the box stood up quickly and silently. Everyone had recived a various degree of shock. It was Shippo who voiced it first.
"A giant mantis?" he asked confusedly.
That was just what it was. It was a giant mantis. It looked exactly like a normal mantis. The only differennce was that it was big enough to match a large man in height. It's carapace was emerald greenaand it's eyes were a deep purple.
At this point, the mantis demon finally regained it's eyesight. The demon gazed at the box and the giant mantis standing in it. It gave a low hiss and the smaller mantis turned to face. The two creatures stared at each other in curiosity. The awkward peace seemed to last only a moment before the demon finally made a decision concerning this new being. It decided to try to kill it. The demon raised it's scythe-like arm and brought it down to cut the insect in half. The demon's arm came down and crashed into the box, creating showers of sparks and electric bolts, but it missed the insect. It had leaped back from the attack. It ejected a hiss of it's ownthat, to the surprise of everyone listening, turned into a laugh.
"Ha ha ha!" it laughed. "First day up and I already het to have some fun!"
The matis turned it's head and gazed at the people around it. It's mandibles seemed to curve upward into a strange twisted sneer.
"An audience!" It laughed. "Well, lucky me! I guess you should prepare for a real show."
The mantis reared up to it's full height and took a deep breath, raising the suspense as much as it could.
"GRANDSCYHTHE TERRORIZE!" it shouted.
The mantis' abdomen suddenly split down the middle and split apart. It unfolded and then the tips shifted ninety degrees to make the abdomen look like a pair of legs. The mantis legs then straighted and went to it's sides. The mantis' sides with his front arms shifted backwards and pointed to the ground. The chest then unfold as two green metal arms were revealed. They attatched themselves to where shoulders would bee on a human body. Finally, the mantis' head and neck folded downwards to become a kind of chest as a new metal head came from between the shoulders. It looked like it was wearing a metal helmet. It was all green with a purple visor shielding the eyes from sight. The mouth was amde of flexible metal and was in a sneer.
As the transformation was finished, everyone was speechless. THey had seen plenty of things change form, but this was a new one.
"A...metal...man?" Miroku gasped.
The metal man began flexing it's limbs, testing them out. The demon recovered quickly and charged at the metal man with another slash. The metal man dodged again while reaching behind his back.
"So you wnat to fight still?" he aske dwit an amused smirk. "Fine by me!"
Two panels opened in the metal man's back and he drew two purple rings. One for each hand. They were like gaint saw blades with large purple spikes at four points on each blade.
The demon was unimpressed as it charged again with it's orgional intent of slicing it's target in two. The metal man gripped the ring in it's right hand and hurled it horizontally at the demon's torso. The demon was too slow to react as the blade mad impact. Unlike the other attacks on it, this blade cut through the demon like a knife through hot butter. It severed the demon's top half from it's bottom with a wet cutting noise. As the two pieces fell to the ground, everyone around become more wary of the metal man. It's weapon could do what theirs couldn't.
The demon was apparently still alive as it''s top half triad tolift itself up and reach to kill the metal man at the same time. The metal amn just smirked as it raised the blade ring in it's left hand.
"You're a stubborn opponent," he smiled. "Too bad I hate that kind the most."
With those words, the metal man hurled his left ring vertically at the demon. This one sliced through the demon's head and remaining body with the same wet cutting sound as before. As both rings finally returned to his hands like Sango's weapon, the metal man began to stare at the demon's head.
"Hello?" he muttered "What's this?"
The metal man walked over to the demon's body as he put his right hand blade back into the panel in his back. Kagome watched him walk over to the right half of the demon's head and inspect the gore he had created. A sudden fear overcome Kagome as a possibility dawned on her.
"Sango!" Kaogme said to her frind urgently. "I think he can see the jewel shard!"
"What!" Sango cried.
Both women watched as the metal man pulled back it's arm and buried it deep into the demon's flesh with a sick squelching sound.
"Eww!" Shippo gagged.
After a brief moment and rooting around, the metal man pulled his hand back out holding the jewel shard. A piece of the Shikon No Tama, the jewel of four souls.
"Curious," the metal man spoke, his face full of intrigue. "A crystaline structure that gives off energy, but is nothing like energon."
Inuyasha, seeing the jewel shard, regained himself and stepped forwrd with the Tetsusaiga at the ready.
"Hey, metal man," he grunted. "Hand over the jewel shard."
The metal man turned and faced Inuyasha with an arrogant smirk, "Are you you adressing me? Grandscythe, a Predacon warrior?"
"I guess I am Grandcythe," Inuyasha snorted, saying the metal amn's name sarcastically.
"Now hand over the jewel shard!"
"I think not," Grandscythe laughed, clamping the jewel shard into his right fist. "Something as powerful as this surely belongs in the worthy hands of a Predacon."
Inuyasha raised the Tetsuasiga and gripped it with a look of anger coming onto his face.
"I don't care who you think it belongs to, it's coming with me!" he roared.
The two warriors lunged at each other. Grandscythe slashed at Inuyasha with his blade ring while Inuyasha did the same with the Tetsusaiga. The two weapons met with a hail of sparks that rained on the ground. They both struggled to try and push their opponent away. they seemed to have the same amount of strength.
"You've got the right weapon," Grandscythe laughed. "But do you you have the skill to defeat me?"
"You talk too damn much," Inuyasha growled.
The two fighters leaped awat from each other and glared at each other. Before Inuyasha could go for another attack, a brown blurr shot past him.
"Outta my way mutt!" shouted Koga. "I'll het the shard for Kagome!"
"You idiot!" Inuyasha shouted at him. "This is not time to act cool for Kagome!"
Koga didn't listen as he ran at Grandscythe with his empowered legs. He leaped into the air and came back down with his foot aimed for a powerful kick.
"Take this!" he roared.
Grandscythe didn't wait for the attack to hit him as he dodged the attack with his own surprising agiility. Koga's foot crashed into the dirt, making a small crater. He tried to pull his foot out, but he quickly found it to be stuck.
"Again, I see adequete power, but not enough intelligence to use it properly," Grandscythe laughed.
He then turned his head to Koga and in one fluid motion, slammed his foot it Koga's face with his own powerful kick. The wolf demon was pushed out of the ground and hurled into the woods from the force of the kick.
"Koga!" Kagome gasped.
"He'll be fine." Shippo remarked. "His head's too hard to be broken by that."
Sango gaped at the show of power the metal man performed. She glanced at her frined from the future.
"Kagome, have you ever seen something like this before?" she asked.
"No," Kagome replied as she shoom her head. "But I'm sure that we can still beat him."
In the woods near the battle, Koga was lying uncocnsious. It wan't the attack that made him that way, it was the black box that he had hit his head on. The box had already ejected it's own sheets of energy and called it back. The dome was already filling with steam.
"BEAST MODE SELECTED," it spoke in a male voice. "BEGINNING REPLICATION."
To Be Continued
A/N: Here's chapter one. What do you think about Grandscythe? Just who is this new transformer that's waking up. I think you can guess what side this one is going to be. If you can't guess or just too lazy to do so, then just read the next chapter