Chapter 22
The Insults and Rage...
Lady Yuma and Sesshoumaru reeled with shock. They have heard about the legendary vampires many times, but never in their dreams would they think that they would be that powerful. They were about to say something when suddenly Alucard fell forward, knocked forward by a black and white blur.
They blinked to see that the blur was actually Kagome, who was thrown off of her Father, as he used her momentum. Her eyes were shining with bloodlust as she saw a potential sparring session.
"How did you get from under there?"
"Oh, that? It's my clone." She clicked her fingers and sure enough the figure under the two tigers dissipated into shadows. "Let's have a spar, Father."
"My pleasure, Daughter. I was thinking about the same lines anyway."
"Are you ready? Actually, to hell with that! No one's gonna ask you if you're ready in a real battle, so here... I... Come!"
As soon as the words fell from her lips the sky darkened, grey clouds eclipsed the sun, plunging their surroundings in an artificial night. Shadows creeped around the two beings, dancing about their feet anxious to start the battle. They watched each other, unmoving, waiting and gauging, which would make the first move, and what opening would be their downfall.
Suddenly, Alucard teleported, leaving the clearing, Kagome tensed, searching about her to find his presence. It wasn't too long, he was watching her from behind the trees, as quick as lightning, she flicked her wrists, revealing her throwing knives, she twirled, to confuse her Father to where she would throw, then she threw them, when her back was to him, catching him unexpected.
Of course, he would have fallen for it, if he weren't 600 years old. No he anticipated that move, or a move that of that high calibre from his Daughter, no that presence was a mere clone, courtesy of his Daughter, his real corporeal body was behind her, shadowed by the amount of raw energy that he was releasing. He crept up towards her.
Kagome, for once, in her sparring sessions, was scared. This was far worse than she thought, if she can't find her Father soon, it was gonna hurt... And true enough, her Father made his move from behind her, driving his hand into her chest, from between her wings, ripping out her heart in the process. She fell forwards in shock onto her knees, blood flooding out from her back and mouth.
Lady Yuma and Sesshoumaru stood in shock. What they had anticipated was a friendly spar, but this... He had ripped out her HEART!
What they didn't see was, the brief moment that Alucard hand touched Kagome, a tendril of her shadow had latched onto him, sending out pulses, telling her exactly where he was. She grinned as her hands touched the Earth, "Mother land, here my call... I am your Daughter, Mistress of this element, seek out he, who caused my harm, for he has a piece of me!" She chanted in Latin, her hands glowed, as the land thrummed with her wish, the rock and soil pulsed as it searched for the tendril that was on Alucard, it found it, and Alucard too.
Alucard, not really used to the elemental attacks he got from her Daughter, was caught off guard as the ground held him and impaled him on an earthly spike. A bloody waterfall ran down the spike, tainting the soil crimson, He didn't stay up there for very long, though, no, he soon shot his Daughter twice in the head, to stop her concentration, returning the soil to normal.
Kagome felt the bullets ram into her skull and burrowing deeper, but not before she dissolved into the shadow. Another handy trick that she learnt, she can move through shadows, making her the most deadly assassin, that anyone could get their hands on. As Alucard was regenerating and recovering, she materialised behind him, biting his neck, and feeding.
The coppery velvet taste of blood flooded her taste buds, overpowering her senses, as she was lost in feeding. And Alucard had to find out the hard way, that when Kagome is feeding off an enemy, she could make it very, very painful. How? By injecting them with her venom. This made sure that her victim, if they weren't lost in the haze of feeding couldn't get away. And since Alucard is already a vampire, he gets the special venom, it's an acid laced with her purification powers that literally eats him inside out.
But Kagome being a good girl and due to the fact that she doesn't want to kill Alucard, stopped feeding off him and injecting the venom before he lost consciousness. Because if she didn't stop biting him, then, well let's just say that Alucard will find out the real meaning of being dead.
All the while this is happening, Sesshoumaru and Lady Yuma are, to say the least, shocked. They never would have thought, that the two vampires could survive, after going through so much. Especially after having your heart ripped out.
"Lady Yuma! Sesshoumaru! What are you doing here?" Kagome asked cheerily, skipping over to them. The clouds above have been dispelled, the sun was shining really brightly now, and they could see that Kikyo, have brought over some friends. She was now much cheerful, after having fed.
"You... You should be dead. Your... Your heart was... ripped out..." Lady Yuma said weakly. "I think I need to sit down."
"Well, technically Alucard, did rip it out, but I grew it back, you know... I can't die that easily!" Kagome answered helping Lady Yuma sit on the edge of the well.
"That is not possible." Sesshoumaru murmured to himself.
"Oh, don't worry,., it's possible all right! Well... Maybe not for you, but for me and Alucard it is!"
"Is it because, you are an undead?"
"Well... Most vampires are, but somehow, I am technically alive. My heart is still beating."
"That's right, but don't go for her heart just because she says its beating. Killing her heart will slow her down a little, but it won't do you much good in a real fight." Alucard growled walking over, finally recovered from the venom. "Did you really have to bite me that hard?"
"Yes, I did." Alucard shot her a withering look.
"I was hungry! Well... thirsty... You know what I mean!"
"Bitch! Did you try to kill Kikyo?" Inuyasha yelled, completely unaware of the glares that he was receiving.
"How many times do I need to tell you, you stupid hanyou?! You will cease your name calling or I will kill you!" Kagome growled.
"Feh! You kill me! I'd like to see you try, wench!" By this time, Alucard, Lady Yuma and Sesshoumaru were way beyond pissed. And Sango, Miroku, Shippou, Kirara and Kaede, wisely started to step away. Especially when they saw the two black and white dragons flanking a fuming Kagome.
Kikyo and Inuyasha however were unperturbed, as they only kept their eyes on Kagome.
Something in Kagome snapped she moved in front of Inuyasha, grabbing him by the neck and hoisting him into the air. Her eyes were flashing dark crimson, the shadow around her were swirling about her angrily at hearing their mistress being insulted.
"You will cease your name calling, bastard! I have put up with you for a whole year, healed you, stood by you, and because of that I will give you one more chance, and one only. If you fail to stop insulting me, then I will send you to hell and this time, without your dead bitch!" With that she threw him to the forest and teleported away, taking Sapphire and Ruby with her.
"Um... Where did she go?" Lady Yuma asked confused.
"It's best that we leave her, Lady Yuma and go back to the palace, let her cool down, otherwise, it will be quite hazardous for us." Alucard sighed, shaking his head at his Daughter's antics, not that he minded.
"Perhaps it would be for the best."
And for the second time that day, they teleported back to the palace. Hoping that Kagome will return soon, with her temper in check and before the week is out.
With Kagome...
Goddamn it! I can't believe he had the nerve to insult me again!
I know! He is so dead, next time he calls us that!
For once I agree with you! Argh! I have so much energy! I need to find an outlet. Seriously!
Just destroy that rock, electrocute it, or something.
Good idea, but better yet!
I was fuming, that rock in front of us, is going to do me a lot of good, by letting me release the energy I have in me. To make me feel even better, I even morphed it to look like Inuyasha and Kikyo.
I grinned maliciously as I let the electricity crackle around me, basking in the feel of the electrical current trickling throughout my body. I snapped my eyes open and opened my palms towards the rock, letting the electricity pass through the air to the rock. It started to turn bright red, melting slowly into a pool of molten rock at my feet. I smirked evilly as I started to form the rock in between my hands. This would make a good time to replenish my weapon stash. Of course, the weapons that Walter had given me were already running out, but that was about to change soon.
I started by heating the rock so much that it turned into a liquefied form of diamond, The blob of crystal light floated in front of in the air, I put one of my fingers out, injecting it with some of my black poison, I watched the diamond hiss and recoil as it started to reject the poison. I forcibly wrapped it around the dark substance, trapping it in the middle of the diamond, eventually it started to settle and I took out the air that separated the two elements. I then started to mould it into a blade, lengthening it, until it was as long as my arm and slightly curving upwards at the end. At the hilt, I made sure that it was covered purely with my poison, making sure that no one could try and catch my sword if I happened to lose it.