Luna raced into the crowd of demons with determination in her heart and her mother's sword in her hands. She could feel them snapping at her, feel the breath as they tried to bite, feel the sharp teeth sinking into her flesh. Slashing wildly, she managed to kill several, but the demons kept rushing in, five replacing every two she killed. She could feel warm blood covering much of her, though it was uncertain if it was hers or her enemies'. Letting out a screeching yell, she tried transforming into her dragoon form, but failed miserably because one demon had bitten into her shoulder, making her lose her focus and screech in agony. In desperation, she slashed at the one at her shoulder. Suddenly, she felt herself being dropped. The demons turned away from her to look at the new intruders. To her horror, she recognized them.

The demons flew at them, gaping mouths opened to reveal hungry, bloody teeth. Sesshomaru calmly drew his sword and charged at them, using only one hand to hold onto the katana. Luna noticed how easily he sliced through them. 'Impressive, Sesshomaru-sama. Very impressive indeed...' Luna made an attempt at standing. No luck. She collapsed again, groaning as dirt got into her wounds. 'Damn...' Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a demon sneaking around the rest. He was approaching the human girl and reptile thing. Luna couldn't explain why, but she felt a protective rage building within her. Forcing herself to sit up, she lifted her sword into the air.

The two who were traveling with Sesshomaru were too distracted by watching the fight to notice the demon sneaking around to get to them. Right before it chose to leap at them, the human girl turned and saw it. A sharp scream hit the air, full of fear.

The girl's fear didn't last long, however, because the demon, who had chosen to strike when the girl screamed, had a black and crimson blade sticking out from its head. The demon fell to the ground with a thud, blood rushing from the wound as it died. The girl turned around again to find the source of the blade and saw the half-demon from earlier passed out on the ground, covered in wounds and blood. Climbing down from the two-headed dragon, the little girl took the blade from the demon's skull and walked over to the young half-demon. "Are you alright?"

No response. The human rolled the half-demon girl over and discovered she was unconscious. Tears rolled down her cheeks as Sesshomaru slayed the last demon and glanced over to see her, still holding the half-demon's blade, and crying. "Rin."

"Y-yes, Sesshomaru-sama?"

"Don't get too close to that." He calmly walked over to the half-demon and had to fight to keep from showing any emotion when he realized what it was that she was close to. 'It's her...'

"Can you save her, Sesshomaru-sama?" Her chocolate-colored eyes were pleading as she turned to look at him. "She saved me from one of the demons..."

Sighing, he decided to give in. Sheathing the blade, he drew a second blade. Focusing, he could see the demons of the underworld chaining her up, preparing to drag her away. Using the sword, he slashed, killing them all in one slash. Quietly, he sheathed the second sword and knelt beside the half-demon, who appeared to be regaining consciousness fairly quickly.

As Luna's eyes opened, she jumped at the sight of the demon, who was looking down at her with the slight glimmer of surprise in his eyes.

The demon was good at not smiling, but he couldn't hide it in his eyes, and that's where Luna saw it. Somehow, she felt comforted.

"Excuse me," The sudden sound made Luna look at the girl. "Could you please tell me your name so I can thank you?"

"My name is Lunari, but you can call me Luna." As she said her nickname, she couldn't help but glance at Sesshomaru, hoping he heard it. "Why don't you tell me your name, little girl?"

The human smiled brightly before speaking. "My name is Rin! This is Sesshomaru-sama, and that's Jaken." She pointed at both of the men as she said their names. "And those dragons are named Ah and Un."

"They look identical... How do you tell them apart?"

"Ah likes to be petted, but Un doesn't."

"I see." Luna smiled, glad that there was one being in the area that didn't want to kill her.

"Foolish human girl! Don't socialize with that foul thing! Get out of the way so Sesshomaru-sama can destroy it!"

"Jaken." Sesshomaru's voice held a deadly tone to it, making the reptile freeze and suddenly look quite fearful.

For what felt like a century, there was silence. Finally, Luna noticed the moon rising. "It's getting dark... and Rin is probably tired... maybe I should leave so you can make camp..."

"Luna?"

"Yes, Sesshomaru-sama?"

"Stay. You still have wounds that are open."

While she wouldn't want to admit it, she honestly needed no second invitation. "Shall I clear out the bodies? Or do we intend on eating them?"

"Clean up. I'll hunt." Quietly, he stood and rushed off without letting Luna say anything else.

"Well, looks like I should get started..."

Authoress: What is this? Three chapters in a day? I must be a superhero!

Izuru: *collapses from exhaustion* You win...

Authoress: Of course I do. The pen is in my hands, remember?

Izuru: Damn... Gotta find me a pen...

Authoress: Only in your dreams, ninja, only in your dreams... Now you people know the drill. You've read, now review. Love hearing from you people, I really do. Sayonara, everyone.