Recap of Chapter Three: Waka, Amaterasu, and Issun get lost in Agata Forest. It is pelting rain and is very cold. Waka just learns that Amaterasu can talk to him telepathically when suddenly they are surrounded by an army of creature/monster thingies. Amaterasu and Waka are both badly injured and Issun, who had been hiding in Amaterasu's fur, was knocked unconscious. It is an impossible situation. How will they escape (the reason why it has taken me two days to post this story up is because I haven't been able to think of a way for them to get out of this without dying. After hours of brainstorming about how they would escape, my best friend Nix, who I had asked to help me, came up with an amazing idea on how to destroy the creatures, and, when I combined it with my idea on how the threesome would escape, it turned into a somewhat heroic, somewhat cool, and somewhat cheesy idea. I hope you enjoy nonetheless.)?

LAST TIME:::

Amaterasu was struggling to hold off the advancing creatures. As they came closer, she backed up, but was startled forward a bit when she backed into a tree. She fought bravely, killing all of the monsters she could get her paws on, but there seemed like there would be no end to the stream of creatures.

What was worse was that it was still raining and Issun had been battered around so much that he had fallen unconscious. She and Waka were on the brink of that, too.

The group was totally surrounded. Amaterasu and Waka were covered in scrapes, gashes, and bruises. Ammy was panting heavily and Waka was using a tree to support himself enough to stay standing, fighting off the monsters as they came at him.

The situation was hopeless. What were they going to do?

Chapter Four: Wildfire

Waka and Amaterasu were going to die. That was inevitable. Even if they did escape from this massive horde, they would both most likely die of their injuries sooner or later.

Perhaps Issun would make it out alive, but truly; what were the chances of him being able to kill Orochi all by himself? Be realistic, folks. Issun is what, three inches tall? It's not like he could bounce so much and with so much force on the beast that he could knock out all of Orochi's eight heads, and then cut them off with his five inch-long sword.

Or could he? Heh, heh, you never know…*evil smile*

The imps and the flying fish were advancing on them quickly. All of a sudden, Amaterasu lost the small wings on her legs and turned a dirty white. Her red markings faded away, too, but you wouldn't notice unless you looked hard enough due to the fact that her coat was drenched with crimson blood.

Other than that, the Sun Goddess looked just like a normal wolf, and an under-kept one at that. Aside from the fact that her fur was all bloody, it was matted and ripped out in some places, too.

Waka knew the reason for the Goddess' sudden transformation was because she had used all of her power using Power Slash too many times. Waka also knew that it was just a matter of minutes before she regained them again.

He hoped that time would be soon.

Or not; if he died he would at least be freed from the guilt that has bound him for so long. He would rather not die—by all means he wasn't suicidal—but this situation was hopeless.

He heard Amaterasu whimper, but Waka was too preoccupied fighting his own fight to look over to her.

But then he sensed her power come back to her. As the stream of creatures around Waka thinned briefly, he could see that she looked like a Goddess again. She lashed out with her Divine Instrument, which was now a different coloured whip; an orange one.

It had stopped raining; now hail the size of small stones was falling from the sky, and the thunder and lightning hadn't stopped, either. Suddenly Issun regained consciousness and screamed a cry of despair at what condition his comrades (or rather, comrade [he didn't care about Waka]) were in.

Blood flowed out of a gash in Amaterasu's front left leg. The tip of her right ear was partially torn off; a large slash went across her snout in a horizontal line. She had so many more injuries, too.

Suddenly, Amaterasu, using the Cherry Bomb brush technique, created a round, orange bomb and materialized it in the middle of a crowd of creatures, whose numbers had gone up from 2 to 20 to over 220 in a matter of thirty minutes.

Waka, knowing that such a bomb would explode soon, did the wise thing and stumbled away a bit from what would soon be Ground Zero. Ammy did the same.

Just then, a huge flash of lightning hit a nearby tree, catching it on fire and sending it crashing down, lighting a nearby one ablaze, too. The hail turned into rain again.

That's when the bomb exploded.

When the bomb exploded, it set the forest blazing with what looked to be a scarlet scorching firestorm.

Waka heard Issun scream and Ammy howl at the time of the blast, but Waka was too concerned with saving himself to bother himself with the wolfy Goddess.

When he managed to limp to safety, he waited for five minutes before he decided to go and find Amaterasu when his moral got the best of him...and…and…another, strange feeling deep within his heart that he did not yet want to put words to.

He limped out of his small cave and into the wildfire.

To be continued…

I hope you all enjoyed it! However, it was really random trying to figure out how Waka and Amaterasu would cheat death…well, at least, for now. Who knows what will happen to them? You can ask my best friend Nix: I am a bit of a fan for tragic endings. What do you want to happen?

I will try to write the next chapter soon. How long do you guys think I should make it? Where would you like them to go if they survive? I need suggestions peoples!!! You can do this by reviewing!!! You can even do this if you do not have an account! Please!

If you don't feel like reviewing, you can just say, "hi" if you want. As always, I thank everyone who has reviewed. Sorry if I seem to obsess a bit about it but it is my only form of inspiration to keep writing it.

Thanks for everyone who has left all of those nice comments for me! !!

-Ratt9

(4/02/2009)