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Chapter 7: Elders' Revenge
The diurnal creatures had finally drifted off to sleep and the nocturnal ones took their place, however tonight was rather quiet and the full moon was shining brightly. Sesshomaru was seated near the window listening to the whooshing sound the wind made as it blew along the trees. Tonight was just not his night, normally he would have been in his study reading and correcting scrolls that had the plans for the Western Lands, however it seemed as if something ominous was going to or is happening at that moment in time somewhere in the Lands, but the question was what?
It had been two days since the incident with his mother and somehow she had gotten quieter , they had even stopped quarrelling with each other and she began to support whatever plans he wanted to carry out for the lands to make it better in the future. He gracefully leaped through the window and landed on the ground with a silent thud.
"Sesshomaru….what are you doing outside at this time, if my calculations are right its about midnight" a soft tone feminine voice said. He looked up to his right to see his mother looking at him through her window. His mouth curved slightly when he saw her face, she was practically still asleep judging from her half-closed eyelids.
"Mother I am going for a quick walk through the forest, you should go back to bed I'll be back in thirty minutes" he replied. He knew that she was unhappy with his answer since she opened her eyes fully and a frown was on her face.
"That's too long Sesshomaru, if you can't come back in the next twenty minutes then I am going with you" she said as she jumped through the window and landed next to him fixing her hands akimbo.
"Mother please, go to bed and don't be ridiculous I won't allow myself to be killed on the way"
"But..but….what if you get ganged on by demons" she whined.
"I have claws and three powerful swords to defend myself" he answered.
"But what if they somehow take away your swords and your claws get broken during the fight…"
"Okay mother, I will be back in the next twenty minutes" he interrupted his mother from carrying on with her possibilities. She gave him a victory face and smiled one of her never before seen grand smile. Jumping back through her window, Sesshomaru watched as his mother closed her windows.
"Finally she has gone to bed" he thought after ten minutes had passed.
He turned and began to enter the forest when suddenly his mother's window flew open. "And if you're late Sesshomaru I'm coming to get you" his mother who was suppose to be sleeping said. Growling lowly Sesshomaru disappeared into the forest, this new motherly love was getting on his last nerve.
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Five minutes had passed since he went for the stroll and he was still pondering on the situation..
"Why was he suddenly on his guard… was something going on that he knows nothing about.." He stopped and looked at his surroundings, he was currently at the edge of a cliff looking down at the human villages! He was so caught up with the situation at hand that he had wandered to the edge of a cliff. "Okay this is getting fucking serious" he was going to solve this problem right now.
"First of all mother is no longer pissing me off that much anymore so its definitely not her… Secondly it's not Jaken since he has been himself
…although he has received a couple of broken bones over the past hours but not him…the servants are just fine no rebel whatsoever, the soldiers haven't been used since last week so they wouldn't have had any complaints…so who was getting me all fussed up…"
And then it hit him, he growled so loudly that he was sure that he had awoken his mother. He turned and began to walked back to the castle.
He knew they had always wanted to upset him but of course he did not think they had the guts to test him that much, but then again they think they are the ones who rule the Western Lands because I am still an unmated Taiyoukai, but they shall see that this Sesshomaru is not a fool…
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"Mistress, what are you doing at this time in the night?" Pegasus said as he watch his mistress ran off to a nearby field. It was still dark but daylight would arrived in the next three hours. After galloping for the next ten minutes he had finally caught up with her, The white horse shook his head when he saw what his mistress had suddenly took off for….flowers.
"Come Pegasus let's play" she chirped as she picked the red and blue flowers from the earth.
"No thanks Mistress Rin, I am quite fine" he said as he sat on the ground with a snort.
"It's because you're male" she snickered."Veerrry much"
"So what's wrong if males touch flowers, will you all burn to ashes?" she said sarcastically.
"Not really but we just…aumm…we don't like to touch those girly stuff" he answered.
"But girls love flowers, how do you expect them to get hook unto you if you don't give them anything" she said with a matter of fact tone.
"What about diamonds and gems?"
"What if you're poor and can only give natural stuff , what would you give her… let's see…dirt I suppose"
"Okay mistress you win!" Pegasus said admitted his defeat by holding up his tail and flashing it from left to right.
"Ha!!, I wo…." Rin stopped what she was about to say and look to the east. Pegasus immediately stood and face the direction in which his mistress was looking.
" Mistress what is it?" Pegasus enquired.
"I smell blood Pegasus…a lot too…human blood actually, its like a massacre! I have never smelt so much blood before!" Rin exclaimed.
"Yes Mistress, its true, I have never sense this much blood since I have journey with you"
"How long before we reach there" Rin said as she hopped onto Pegasus' back.
"Well we're about three miles away from the area…it will take me about fifteen minutes"
" Okay let's go" Rin said as they took off to their destination.
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In the head council room five elders sat together, writing up scrolls and some plotting evil plans.
"The pup is oblivious to the plot, and then he claims he is intelligent" one demon elder chuckled.
"Let's not say that, our lord is an intelligent dog demon even if he is just a young one" a feminine elder stated.
"Why are you picking up for the pup?" one male demon snarled at the female.
"Because it's the truth, I Saya Ichimaru, the first sheath of my great grandson will not allow you to speak of him as an inferior male"
"Then Saya, why are you here?" a blue haired male enquired.
"Because this is a meeting for the councillors of my lord" she replied.
The head council smiled, "My dear Saya you are so naïve, we wanted you to come here because….we need to get rid of you"
Gasping, the one thousand year old demoness got up from her seated position and move to the exist door.
"You see, we knew you love your great grandson so much that we were positive that you would have stood up for him even if we the elders were against any decision he made, so in order to ensure you don't mess us up we have to….let's say….KILL YOU"
Suddenly two katanas came from behind the door and stabbed Saya in her chest. She held no weapons to defend her self and the head councillor push her in the chest sending the katana further. Soon the person behind the door drew out the katana and Saya landed on the ground with a thud. She bled freely and her strength was fading away and fast, she used what little she had left and said,
"You may have killed me Maki but remember this and remember it well that no crime goes unpunished and my grandson will avenge me…" she choked out before she passed away.
Maki stared at the body in front of him "We shall see Saya, we shall see.."
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Rin hopped off Pegasus and look at the destruction before her, it was so horrible that the tears came down freely on her face. There were human bodies everywhere but the war wasn't finish yet because she still smelt humans but the village was on fire, she needed to save the survivors. Before she took off in the blaze she said,
"Pegasus go left and picked up the survivors, I will go right and deal with whoever is causing this calamity" with a nod Pegasus was off and Rin took off as well.
Moving slowly, Rin took out the Artemis bow, she knew a demon was close by a bear one to be exact. She hid behind a house so as to avoid too much attention from the demon, she knew he would be able to scent her so she knew she had to be quick but it seemed as if the whole world hated today because soon she was surrounded by five snake demons.
"Hello my prettissss, what bringsss you here", one said.
"Who sent you here?" Rin enquired.
"No one actually, its just that we saw this bear demon attacking the village so we decided to join the FUN!" one said and soon they all launched at her.
"Well I can assure you all that I am not easy to take down!" she replied before forming a spiritual arrow and firing it on her enemies. It caught both snakes and they blew up into pieces.
"You are a tough one my priestesssss" Rin chucked before forming a demon arrow, I cannot save you this time she said as she flipped to the top of the house, aiming the arrow at the snake in the middle she was able to blow all three to smithereens. Unfortunately she caught the attention of the bear demon and without rest she had to fight him but first she needed answers. The bear demon was now on the roof with her surprisingly it didn't give out.
"Priestess, why are you here?" the bear demon enquired.
"Same question I was about to ask only with a little more stuff to it" Rin replied. She looked into his doleful eyes and realize that probably he didn't want to do what he was ordered to do.
"I am here my priestess…to kill the humans of this village" he replied with a soft tone.
"Why would you do this?" she enquired.
"My lord sent me"
"Which lord?' Rin said as she felt as if her whole body was about to shut down.
"Taiyoukai Lord Sesshomaru"
"You're lying" she snarled.
"No my priestess, I am not, I was also wondering why the lord would do this, but its an order and I had to carry it out, I am so sorry for what I have done that I only want to die but I will have to kill you though because my lord wish it" he said before he threw a dagger at Rin, she immediately spilt allowing the blade to pass over your head. Now the bear demon was charging full force at her, she could not aim the bow in time so she had no choice but to use her claws.
He tried to grab her but she dodge him with ease, leaving her bow she began to leap from house to house but the bear was still on her tail, there was no way she could fight him with her claws he was too tall and if her calculations was right he was around nine feet, she being five feet two inches would have a hard time fighting him.
She was so caught up with the advantages the bear demon had over her that she never realize that the bear had passed her and was now right in front of her. She stopped when she realized her dilemma, but it was too late because before she knew it, the bear had threw her into a village house.
Regaining her consciousness she looked for a sharp object in the rumble that she could use to defend her self, but that was too late also and soon her head came in hard contact with the ground again and again. However, she broke one of her claws and ram it into the bear's eyes where he threw her into another house. Coughing up blood Rin looked at her situation, she was about to die and she hadn't even reach her lord's castle, was Suko right, was she really going to fail.
"Mistress Rin, listen and listen well, you are the 'Priestess of Legend' do not think you're going to fail, be optimistic and stop making those stupid conclusions, I am positive that the Artemis bow can appear if you called on its name so get UP AND FIGHT!!"
"Pegasus…" Rin eyes widened then returned to normal "I will"
Standing up she looked at the demon, blood was now running down her face and on her clothes, she placed a hand in her hakama pocket and stared at the now one-eyed demon.
"You little….bitch, how dear you do this to my eye" he snarled, but Rin continued to stare, the cut on her head had caused even her black tresses to turn to a burgundy colour.
"Oh so you will not speak, I am going to rip your petite head of her petite body and carry it to my master!!" he said before charging at Rin.
"I would advise you to stop bear demon because the closer you get the more smaller your pieces will be when you explode" Rin said.
"Hmph, and what will you use to kill me, you insignificant little--"
"This.." Rin said as the Artemis bow appeared into her hand.
"Goodbye, dear demon, I must say.." as she formed a demon arrow and aim it at the charging bear "..you were quite a challenge" she said as let go of the arrow, it hit the bear and he blew to smithereens. It was now raining blood as Rin staggered to a house and fell to the ground. Soon Pegasus arrived,
"My mistress…" he said looking at looking at the condition of Rin.
"I am fine Pegasus I am healing" she indicated with a hand where the cut was now beginning to close.
" I have place the survivors at the river"
"How many were alive?""Two persons, a pregnant lady and her husband"
"I can't believe my lor….""What is it mistress?""The bear demon told me that he was ordered by Lord Sesshomaru to kill the people of the village"
"Mistress I don't believe that, neither the survivors, they claim he would never do this and that there is someone else behind this plot""I don't care Pegasus, right now we are going to the castle and I am going to blow it to smithereens when I get there""Wait mistress, in your condition I don't think it's a good idea, besides you can't fight fire with fire" sighing Rin looked at the Pegasus and smiled, rubbing his head she replied
"That's true Pegasus, instead of trying to blow up the castle let's help the survivors and then I will go to my lord, stand firm and question him about the situation at hand"
"Aumm…mistress…is it that easy?"
Giggling for a while Rin answered "I don't think so Pegasus"
They then walked on to the river, oblivious to the fact that they were being watched.
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Maki sat in his room, writing up the plan on a scroll, he muttered to himself "I will need to do this first since I don't want the pup to know about his great grandmother's death until that appointed time.."Suddenly there was a knock on his door,
"Speak" he replied.
"My lord, I am afraid your plan has come to ruin…"
"What!!" Maki shouted at the door.
"Yes my lord, you see at the village there was some interruption..""From who?.."
"A priestess my lord"
"Are you kidding me?""No my lord, but it seems as if she knows Lord Sesshomaru"
"This is bad….even if there's a possibility that the girl will not speak on them, there's still a possibility" Maki thought.
"My Lord?.." the demon enquired, soon the door opened and there stood Maki. The demon bowed his head in fear that his master would kill him.
"Tell all the elders they should leave the castle immediately, they should not pack their stuff, also tell them to spilt up…""Is that all my lord?"
"And if they asked for me tell them I have already left the premises"
"Yes my lord" the demon replied before running to deliver the message.
Maki walked on through the back door of his room, he knew that the lord would find out, but he didn't wanted him to find out now. Maki then exist the castle and ran off into the forest forgetting Saya's body.
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Jaken soon arrived at his master's chambers, he was fretting about the whole situation, the servant only said that the lord wanted to see him but somehow he knew it was an emergency, his master's aura was strong…very strong and he knew this meant he was angry.
"Mi lord, I…I…have arrived" Jaken stammered when he spoke, soon the door open and Jaken as usual went into his apologies.
"Mi Lord I am sorry I didn't mean to act like that"
"Jaken…"
"Mi lord, forgive me!!!" he wailed.
"Jaken"
"Oh! my lord….." he continued to wail.
"Jaken!!!" Sesshomaru shouted.
"Yes my…my..lord" he stammered.
"I need to have a meeting with the elders right now, its an emergency" Sesshomaru answered coolly.
"Mi lord I am afraid I can't do that…"
"Why….not" he snarled.
"Be…cause…the elders left"
"What!!!"
"Yes mi lord, they all left the premises this morning my lord except for your great grandmother Saya"
Sesshomaru's eyes suddenly turned bloodshot,
"Jaken….listen well… carry three more servants with you, I want you to search Maki's room and anything found bring it to me" he replied, when suddenly his mother arrived in his room.
"Sesshomaru….my son… I thought you didn't want to get married!!!" she giggled.
"I don't mother"
"Really, but there's a lady here at the castle doors waiting to see you, I told her to come inside but she said not until she speaks with you about something very important"
" Really now mother and what's her name mother?"
"Oh Sesshomaru, she has a beautiful name, her name is Rin"
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Cliff hangers everyone hates them, so yeah everything is going bad now, the elders and their evil plots, Saya getting killed, Rin getting the beating of her life, and now Sesshomaru desperately trying to figure out where the elders have gone but then Rin have arrived…ohh well it's up to Rin and Sesshomaru to fix this, but the question is will they be able to sort out their little problem?
Oh yeah, I don't mind tomatoes, at least they don't hurt like the cussing I got from my friends. Oh yeah they said that you should cuss me too for taking sooo long to update the story and that you shouldn't accept any excuse from me, but I wanna say I am sorry for any mistakes.
Oh well, this is where I close sorry for the long update and don't forget to read and review.