Since the voting on the poll was never settled and it was a tie between Her getting pushed down a hill during an attack by the birds, gets attacked by a stray demon and is saved and her and company evaiding an attack by the birds and run into them. Because of the situation I'm put in, guess I'll have to work my own idea for this.
Plus I know ya'll are punishing me by not reviewing my earlier chapters because I've been delaying the chapter that sets up the meeting of the two groups, but don't blame me, that's Ya'lls fault for not disccussing with me on what would be a good sequence to bring them together. On to the story
"When the days are cold
And the cards all fold
And the saints we see are all made of gold
When your dreams all fail
And the ones we held are the worse of all
And the blood runs stale
I wanna hide the truth
I wanna shelter you
But with the beast inside
There's nowhere we can hide
No matter what we breed
We still are made of greed
This is my kingdom come
This is my kingdom come
When you feel my heat
Look into my eyes
It's where my demons hide
It's where my demons hide
Don't get too close
It's dark inside
It's where my demons hide
It's where my demons hide"
Demons-Imagine Dragon
Chapter 7: Vision Crisis
I feel the wind gushing against my face as I dash through the woods. My speed unnatural for a human, as quick as a tornado. I slowed to a stop next to a cliff over looking the forest below. I fix my glasses back on my face, oddly enough my glasses haven't once fallen off.
I could see the Bird's gulge nearby. The wide canyon that was as long as a football field and a half was eerily quiet the past few days. Ever since my almost abduction by one of the bird, the rest of the pack have been on high alert. I was finally able to slip out of the den to get some peace.
I sigh as I look out over the beautiful woodlands. So far, not even one train of thought about home has run through my mind. I know a part of my heart misses home but here, I'm free to be what I've never been before.
A small smile picks at my face as I remember my normal life before. My pals, my sister, Mom and Dad. I look down at my neck at the wolf fang. My parents had given me and Tav these back when we were kids. I never took mine off while Tavera always hides her under a shirt when she wears it. Guess she never wanted anyone to know we actually share a matching pair.
I turn my back on the cliff as I stroll my way through the trees and mountain rocky paths. I'm pretty sure if I don't go back now, Kouga is gonna come and hunt me down again like he normally does. I pull on my pigtail and head back the way I came following my own foot prints in the dirt back towards the waterfall where the den was hidden behind.
"Talia! Where'd you go?" Nero jumps down from his seat which was just a smoothed out boulder. I wave my hand at the dark brown green eyed wolf yokai. "Just for a walk, Nero-san. Nothing to freak out about." Sometimes I forget who I'm talking to, Nero's pratically Kouga's body guard, but lately the male has been hounding after me. Guess Koga put him up to it, which I'm not surprised about in the least.
"Are you insane? Walking around out there without letting anyone know where you were? What if one of the Birds got you?" Nero says sparatically, his nerves going into overdrive. I face palm myself and groan. "Nero, calm down before you go into shock." Nero's sort of like a seizure wolf if he gets overwhelmed or stressed. Lately he's been like this since my almost abduction by one of the birds.
My words knock the yokai into quietness his nerves finally calmed. "Kouga's looking for you." Oh great, that was never good half the time. I roll my eyes as I part from Nero to head to the hot spring, where Kouga is normally found when he's on a stress day.
"Chief? Oi, Chief." I call into the hot springs before pulling back the curtains. "Holy Demon Slayer you scared the shit out of me!" Kouga almost hits his head on the edge of the spring. "Gomen gomen. Sorry I took off like that, I was out for a walk." Slowly I realized that Kouga was naked in the spring and his nice abs and pecks were visible above water.
My face turns cherry within five seconds, Kouga's face is turning an even darker shade. "D-Don't look at me!" My alpha stammers, looking away from me as I try to hide my red face with my hands. I slowly try to back up so I can exit through the curtains, but that's not what the demon gods' had planned.
Annie unexpectedly walks in behind me and scares the living crap out of me. "AAAAH!" I loose my footing and go flying into the spring. "Ah!" I could hear a grunt as I land in the wet arms of Kouga.
My face burns harder. "G-G-G-Gomenasai!" I sqeal and fluster under his concerned gaze. "You ok, Talia?" His hands rest on my waist which was already wet from the springs along with my pelts. Annie is already gone by the time I look at the curtain opening. I look back at Kouga who's flustered like I am.
My mind is swirling with thoughts. 'Oh god I must look like an idiot.' 'This is so embarrassing!' 'My god he looks hot! No bad brain…but he is pretty hot. Damnit! I must be cherry red now!' My face burns more as I feel myself being pulled into Kouga's chest. My cheek connect with his smooth pecks and I can feel steam pouring out my brain.
Kouga gives me a warm smile as he looks down at me. "Your pelts are soaked. I think you should change before you get a cold." I don't acknowledge that he said something as I curl into his warmth as he sinks us both back into the spring. I look up at him and finally notice that his hair was down and around his shoulders, making him look like a god.
Kouga surprises me by taking down my side ponytail, which causes my hair to slip down and the ends of my hair dips into the spring. I could hear Kouga take a sharp intake of air. I look up at him and caught him staring at me intently. I blush as I stare at him, he looks so beautiful. "You look..." I stammer, biting my lip as I try to find my words.
"Hm?" He looks at me, a hint of a smile on his face. I blink and look back at him. "You look like a god." I cup my hands over my face hiding my burning cheeks as I could see Kouga's face slowly turn a bright pink color. He pulls me in close and burries his face into my neck to hide his flustered face.
I could hear him mumbling into my hair and shoulder. "Nani?" I asks as I implusively stroke his silky hair. It has drops of water mixed into it making it look heavenly. He speaks up slightly.
"You're the one who looks like a goddess." My face burns red. That's when the worse thing could've happened. "Look at this! Kouga's getting it on!" I look to see Wayven, Quin and Carson. Kouga looks up and sees the peverts/goof offs of the pack.
"What do you weaklings want?" Kouga snaps, his grip on my waist tightens. Wayven cracks a cocky grin. "Nothin', just hoping to catch a peep show." This made the two dingo wolf's laugh their asses off. "Too bad for you, losers." I sneer at the threesome who walked in half naked, their kilt skirts still on. "Wanna say that again, human?" Quin raises a fist in my direction.
I growl at them. "I'm more wolf than you losers, even if I'm not a demon." Kouga actually has to hold me back so I don't slam Quin's face into the ground. "You wanna fight, Human?" I laughed hard in their faces. "I don't need to fight you pathetic welps."
I slide out of Kouga's arms and step up ot of the spring. A smile slowly appears on my face as I slam my elbow into Wayven's gut, my fist into Quin's jaw and my knee into Carson's crotch. All three of them groan in pain and curl up as they fall on the ground.
"You bitch!" Wayven was the first to get up and slams a punch into my side. "Err." I grab his fist and pull him and his body over my shoulder and toss him into the shallow spring.
Carson gives me a dirty look as Quin grabs me from behind. "I got the bitch! Hahaha!" Quin howls with meanacing laughter. I could hear some knuckles being popped behind us and Quin's body freezes in place. "How bout you out her down and fight like a real wolf or are you just a mutt trying to act tough?" Kouga's voice has a hint of demonic tone to it which makes Quin pratically quiver with fear.
"Take this!" Wayven slams a fist into Kouga's back which the nimble alpha avoids before slamming his leg into the wolf's cheek knocking him back into the spring where he once was. Carson jumps inbetween Quin, me and Kouga and starts attacking the alpha all while shouting.
"Run you idiot! Take the human with you!" Kouga and Carson get heated into it as Quin's grip retightens on me as he drags me out of the hot springs. "Let me go, you Dingo! Kouga!" I exclaim as other wolf yokai watch in shock as I'm getting pulled out of the den.
I notice none of my friends are in the den except for Yukaza and Nero. "Help! Nero-san! Yukaza-chan!" I'm still struggling in Quin's grip but my attempts are fruitless, not even biting his arm helps. Nero looks up, a snap of emotions cross his face as he yells storming over. "HEY! Quinston, drop her now!" Nero grabs onto him just as Quin tries to run the opposite way back towards the corridor.
I could feel it, once again this strange feeling washing over me as my eye's narrow and I could feel my nails extending slightly but not fully as I pierce Quin's arm with my small claws. "GAAAH!" Quin yelps when I get them hooked into his bicep. He drops me and glares at me as Wayven and Carson come running from the corridor, a heated Kouga chasing after them. As I'm about to claw Quin again, Carson and Waven snatch me by my arms and I'm tugged along. We don't get far as I dig my small claws into their backs, making them scream and howl with pain before they let me go.
My nails receed again and my eyes widen back to normal. 'damn what is going on with me…' I thought to myself as Kouga and Nero run to me and lead me back inside the den while two other wolf yokai's fetch Carson and Wayven's weaken bodies.
Xxx..
A demoness looks on from the view of her mirror (yea I know not clever enough :P) at the scene. She watches the fake yokai girl walk back into the wolf den. "Hmm, so that girl is harboring hidden potentials of a demon. How interesting." The demoness purrs as her talons tap against the mirror image. A wicked grin forms on her face as her deadly silver eyes gleam over the image of the human wolf girl.
"She'll be of use to me." She pets her little pet demon crow which is unlike the rest of the birds of paradise which look more like giant newborn chickens. "Bring her and her…Alpha to me." A small flock of the birds take to the sky as the demoness laughs echos in the valley.
Xxx.
The group make it to the base of the mountain. Inuyasha looks at the steepness of it. "Hm looks like not many humans come to this mountain. Its hard as hell to walk up. Watch your steps, guys." Inuyasha looks behind him to see the girls already struggling to stand on the steep mountain route. Miroku slows his pace and takes easy steps up the steep road, the girls follow his lead and they soon make it up the first path.
Sango looks around. "Does anyone else feel like something is gonna happen?" Shippo jumps on her shoulder and spouts. "Bad or good?" Miroku nods his head. "I got the same feeling, and something tells me it's gonna be bad and not just for us." Inuyasha huffs and shakes his head. "what's that supposed to mean, monk?"
Kagome sighs and feels the air. "Meaning something bad's gonna happen and it won't just affect us. And we're not too far off from where it's coming from." She was right in fact, not far off was the wolves den and nearby that the gulge where the birds reign.
xxx.
I look up at the roof of the cave. Annie looks over at me as well as the rest of my friends as I stand up. "What's wrong, Talia?" Minko asks his blonde hair half falls in his face. My gaze goes to the cave entrance. Something doesn't feel right at all. Yukaza reaches for my arm and her touch is pleasant and comforting. "Tali-chan?" The polite femwolf asks me.
"Something's coming…" I say hesitantly. Lights flash in my face and my vision blurrs to see an image, a vision. The birds. A Harpy demon Kouga.
Suddenly a bigger image shows as I see myself… but the image was gruesome. My nails were as long as they were back when I had killed Uzukaza, my eyes a deeper green but were void of any emotion but bloodthirsty rage, red marks on my cheeks and my teeth are long canines.
"Gah!" I gasped and panted in shock, my eyes widen in fear. No, I don't want to become that! Someone shouts my name. "Tali!" Kouga holds me by my shoulders and shakes me. "Talia, you alright?" I shake my head viciously. Something's gonna happen… I'm the cause of it! "I-I-I gotta go!" I dodge pass Kouga and head for the cave openning.
"Talia, what's wrong? Tell us what's happening." Ginta holds my arm as I'm passing him and Hokaku. My eyes are still wide with fear and uncertainty. "Let me go! I-i-I can't be here! Forgive me, please…" I look at Kouga and my pals once more before I dash out of the cave, breaking Ginta's hold on me.
"Natalia!" Kouga cries out as he starts to chase after me. "Kouga, wait!" I could hear Annie call out and their voices were to far for me to hear anymore. I dash through the woods. I won't let it happen! I won't let that vision come true! Kouga, please forgive me. This is the only way to keep that vision of me killing you from happening. I don't stop running until I almost fall from the cliff that I had stopped at earlier this afternoon.
"Ah!" I exclaim in surprise as my foot almost drops off the cliff. I turn in circles looking around to see if anyone followed me. My gaze drops on the gugle. "Oh no.." I could see the birds rising and active in the valley where they live. "My vision… it's already happening!" I speed off towards the gulge, avoiding trees and roots as I get as close as I can to the valley where the birds live.
The birds were crowing loudly. I wish I could see better, stupid glasses. I fix my glasses on my face as I try to see as much as I can. It was eerily quiet for a few minutes after they calmed down from their rowdy screeches.
"So," I back up in surprise. A harpy demon appears in front of me near the gulge. "You've come to me, human child. Yet you smell of wolf." She gestures with her talons for me to come closer. Her voice is like poisoned honey, deadly yet sweet. My body refuses to listen to me as I move closer to her.
"W-who are you?" I said, a growl resonanting in my chest, aching to break out. The harpy chuckles at my attempt to be intimidating. "How sad, your not from this world. But you live with no fear of being harmed by the demons you live with. Too bad they weren't more…obseravant to see that you have hidden power inside of you." She couresses my cheek with her talons. I shiver instictively at her touch, it felt vile. I could smell blood on her, I couldn't tell if it was old or fresh.
"I'm Sharushi, Harpy queen of the Birds of Paradise. And you, you're gonna be my new pet.~" She cooes but it could tell it was malicious. "What do you mean, your new pet?! I'm worth nothing to you." I give her a glare but she just laughs it off. "Oh, don't worry about that, my precious. Soon, you'll be such an obedient girl." Sharushi runs her hand over my hair, my knees and legs are too weak to move.
It's like just the sound of her voice is controling my body alone. Sharushi takes my arms and unwillingly yet unable to have free will, takes me to the gulge.
Xxx
Kouga growls. Annie grabs him tightly by the wrist to keep him from moving an inch towards the gulge where Natalia was taken to. "Queen of the Birds? She commands those devils of the sky?!" Hokaku exclaims in shock as he shares a look with Minko and Ginta.
"We have to do something. You heard what Sharushi wants to do with her. We have to save her before she becomes that harpy's pet!" Yukaza breaks from her polite nature and says fearfully but calmly. "I know damnit!" Kouga yells as he runs a hand through his loose hair. He paces, trying to figure out what to do. "We need a plan!" Minko points out. "We need to think out how we're gonna save her."
Annie remains quiet as she thinks over what happened before in the cave. "She saw this coming…" her voice catches the attention of the rest of the wolves. She raises her head to them and speaks louder.
"She saw this. She must've known that something was gonna come after her. That's why she left the cave, she didn't want us to get hurt or get caught in the cross fire as they try to take her. She didn't tell us anything because something else must happen that she didn't want to happen either." Minko and the rest nods their heads in agreement to her theory.
Kouga looks over at the valley. "it must be something bad. I say we be stealthy and cautious so we don't get caught and learn a bit more on what's going on." The wolf yokai all nod as they dash off together towards the gulge.
xxx..
They finally break through the steep slopes to reach the moutain heights where the caves and valley were. Inuyasha sniffs the air. "I smell birds, and… wolves." Sango puts her hand on her hip. "That's not odd for the terrarian we're in. Wolfs and bird demons live around here."
Kagome looks around at the trees that surrounded the landscape even the view over looking the mountain. "Something's definatly not right." She whispers, her hand reaching for her bow.
Miroku's eyes narrow slightly. "I say we continue but be cautious of our surroundings. Remember, we're intruding on their territories so try not to look like a threat." They continue to walk on and reach a break in the trees to a view of a large gulge.
"Wait, what's that?" Shippo exclaims as the four look at the view of the large gulge which was deep and wide and ran a long way. Inuyasha catches a wiff of scents. "I smell a bird, a wolf and a group of wolves. Looks like the most recent was the group of wolves." He continues to smell, trying to diverge the scents. His eyes widen greatly.
"Kagome, a human was here. Her scent is faint, covered by that of the scents of wolves." Kagome looked dumbfounded. "You don't mean!" Sango and Miroku exclaim. Kagome covers her mouth in shock and almost disbelieve. "It could be her."
Inuyasha pulls Kagome on his back. "Let's find out but stay quiet ok guys." They slide down to the first ledge of the gulge and stay hidden.
Xxx..
"Where are you taking me!" I cry out trying to remove her grip from my hand as she sits me down in a chair, her voice hard yet sweet. "Stay." My body freezes and I can't budge from my seat. I look around her hut like house. All I could smell was death and bird demons.
Her hut looked like an lab but less modern and expensive. I could see her fiddling with something before she comes closer to me, holding a collar with a deep red jewel in it. "No! No! Please!" I beg as she cups my cheek. She whispers in my ear. "You'll be taken care of. I promise, my precious~" My eyes blurr with unshed tears. Kouga…. I'm so sorry… was my last thought as the collar gets slipped on my neck, the red gem coming in contact with my skin. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Xxxxx
(same scene 3rd person view)
Sharushi watches with deep pleasure as the collar binds to Natalia's neck. "AAAAAAAAAAH!" her screams are pure pain as the jewel and collar glow with a red hue. Her body is inveloped with a red glow as her screams decrease.
Sharushi's smile grows even more when kneeled on the floor is her new pet. Her apperance is altered, now as a demon, a wolf demon. "The collar works to renders the seal placed on your demonic abilities worthless. You're now a wolf yokai, my precious.~"
Natalia stands, her hair the same length as before, her ears now have a sharp edge to them. Her nails are elongated like they were when she first came to this world. Her teeth grew into extended cannines. Her eyes turn a new deeper shade of green. Slowly the red marks on her face fade away as her gaze draws to the Harpy demon.
The harpy demon's long fiery red hair is in a knotted ponytail style while she was wearing a blue evening dress, you could plainly see her arms and legs covered in feathers but they didn't stick up like feathers would, more like the feathers took the place of her skin with her talons looking deadly.
"My, my. Your demon form looks…delicious." She purrs, her voice still sickly sweet. Natalia revealed no emotion but inwardly felt disgusted by her voice. Sharushi slowly circles the new wolf yokai and runs her talons over her body as she does so, making her shiver from the touch.
What is wrong with me… I feel such strange emotions for her. I need to snap out of it! Her thoughts raged as Sharushi stops right in front of her once more but closer than before causing Talia to back up on instinct. "Don't move." Natalia can't move back or away, Natalia's emotions start to change, her eyes full of confusion and of slight fear. "Shhh. It's ok." Sharushi whispers as she cups her cheek.
"No need to be afraid of me, my precious wolf.~" Sharushi cooes as she steps closer to Talia. "Your all mine.~" She whispers as the harpy demon presses her supple lips to hers and begans to kiss her. Talia's confused instincts register Sharushi kissing her.
"No this is wrong!" Her human thoughts voice. "I don't know what's wrong and what's right." Her demon thinks back. Because of not knowing if it's wrong or right; Talia, in her demon instincts; kiss the harpy demon in return. The feeling of the kiss is new and sweet.
Sharushi sighs against her lips her hand moves from her cheek to her neck and plays with her hair. Talia wraps her arms around Sharushi's waist as the kiss gets more feverish. Talia growls slightly, making the kiss grow more ravishing. Sharushi, who's enjoying their time, pulls away from her making Talia whine in results.
"Now, now, you belong to me. We'll have plenty of time to play.~" Sharushi nuzzles Talia's neck. Sharushi looks up at the she wolf and sees that her eyes now have a red hue added to their deep green color, an effect brought on by the jewel on the collar.
Talia gets on her knees and bows to Sharushi. The harpy smiles and plays with her hair as the two watch the sun setting.
Evil of me wasn't it? BWAHAHAHA! Hope you all enjoyed the chapter. I dare say it came out better than I expected. I pulled off a better idea than the ones I had before. I gave you guys fluff with Kouga so be happy XD
So far, the vision hasn't happened yet. But there's still time.
Voice your questions an oppinions in the comments. Don't hate on the fact that I did one lesbian kiss, because get used to it for the possibly two chapters.
Besides I think this way was more shocking than I think it could turned out! Please leave a review on the way out, ask a question if you want to about the chapter and please have a good day!