I know. I took forever... Shoot later Read now. A.T.
*At Village*
" So what if they're water dragons? I'll kill them in one blow."
Inuyasha pulled out Tetsusaiga. Miroku turned to everyone with a nod.
" Let's split up. Mai... Shippo, Inuyasha and yourself handle the sea dragons while Songo and I kill the demons in the village."
Mai glared at Inuyasha with stiff shoulders.
" ... Fine."
Inuyasha turned to her with a look.
" What?"
Shippo stood by Mai while looking at Inuyasha.
" Wow Inuyasha. What did you do?"
Inuyasha gave Mai a look when the dragons were close enough.
" You better know how to use that staff of yours, or you're gonna get killed."
" Just shut up flea-fest,and Shippo just stay by me."
Mai twirled the staff as the black orb entwined in the dark metal swirl design at the tip of the staff caught fire, causing it to look as
though she was spinning a violet flame. She took aim at one of the dragons, shooting a warning shot to successfully scare it off.
While she wasn't looking, three more dragons were coming up in Mai's blind spot.
" Mai, Shippo look out!"
Sacred arrows flew through the air, taking out the dragons. Shippo looked around.
" Was that Kagome's arrow?"
" Maybe, but... I don't see her or Dylan anywhere."
Mai looked around as well.
" Mai! In front of you!"
Inuyasha screamed causing Mai to turn just in time to see a glowing orb come out of no where and obliterate the dragon.
" Where did that come from?"
Shippo looked around as Kagome came running up to them. Mai just stood there in shock with Shippo shaking her leg while looking
at Kagome.
" You're alright! Where's Dylan?"
" He disappeared. There was a flash of light and I found myself close to the village."
Inuyasha walked up to her.
" Did you see where that sphere came from?"
" Yes. It came from the center of the village."
Mai snapped out of her shock and turned on Kagome.
" Where the hell is my brother?!"
" He's probably with Miroku and Songo."
Inuyasha grabbed her arm.
" Hey calm down. Let's see where that sphere came from."
They ran off to find them, but what they found was a glowing figure surrounded by demons.
" Who is that?"
Shippo clung to Mai's leg as she sniffed the air.
" Smells like... ocean lilies. Dylan?"
" What about Dylan?"
The light dimmed enough to make out a figure.
" There he is."
Inuyasha looked confused. It looked like Dylan, but his hair grew out and was shaded ice blue.
" What happened to you?"
Kagome took a step forward.
A voice rang out that wasn't his own.
" Ice Glare."
The light from the attack blinded everyone. Inuyasha rubbed at his eyes.
" I can't see! Kagome, you ok?"
" I'm fine."
Mai blinked to clear her vision, then glared at Dylan.
" What the hell! Dylan what is wrong with you?!"
" Ayaka... Why did you..."
The glowing faded and Dylan turned back to normal, fainting. Mai caught him before he hit the ground and turned to the others.
" Who is Ayaka?"
Inuyasha and the others shrugged.
" Huh. Guess he's not so useless after all. The kid can fight."
Kagome ran up beside Mai looking at Dylan.
" Let's get him to an inn."
*Inn*
Dylan shifted around and began to come back to the realm of consciousness. Songo was by his side instantly helping him sit up.
" W-what happened to me? Hey guys, what's going on?"
Everyone gave him a disbelieving look.
" You're joking... you don't remember?"
" Remember what? The last thing i remember was... those swords. I was being drawn to these dual swords back at the shrine..."
Miroku looked to be pondering something before he spoke up.
" Strange. It seems Dylan and Mai both are not what they seem to be. Mai is a demon, and I am guessing Dylan is a monk or priest."
" Me? A priest?"
Kagome stepped up and looked between the two siblings.
" It seems Ayaka was the name of Mai's past life and they apparently knew each other."
Mai stared at him.
" What do you mean?"
Shippo looked up at her.
" Well... When Kikyo came back to life, she was really angry at Inuyasha and attacked him."
Inuyasha lightly glared at Shippo.
" It sounds to me like Dylan's past life has a bone to pick with you. So if that priest ever comes back out... it ain't gonna be pretty."
Mai looked Inuyasha in the eyes.
' That's not how it seemed to me by what he said...'
" I have to go back."
Everyone turned to Dylan and Inuyasha looked slightly dumb-struck.
" Back? You don't mean to the shrine do you?"
" Yes. There is something there that could explain some things."
He turned to Mai with a serious look.
" ... *sigh* We leave in the morning."
" I'm not leaving until I find out what's in that shrine. Mai, you know once I've made up my mind there's no changing it. You of all
people know how it feels to have your mind set on something."
" I never said we weren't going! Who the hell was just passed out, huh? You're gonna rest first if I have to tie you down!"
Kagome got between the two before their fight got physical.
" Stop it! Both of you. You're siblings not enemies. We'll all go in the morning like Mai said. Now please, let's just all get some sleep."
*Morning at shrine*
Inuyasha gave Dylan a look.
" I don't know how you expect us to do anything with the barrier up."
" The barrier isn't a problem. Just walk through it. You'll be fine."
" Does that mean it won't hurt us demons now?"
Mai looked from Shippo to the shrine and shrugged.
" Only one way to find out."
Mai walked into the shrine with no trouble. She turned around and did a happy dance.
" Woo! Didn't get shocked this time."
" Told you it was fine. C'mon."
Dylan and the others followed Mai into the shrine. Shippo looked around.
" Wow. It looks really old."
Mai chuckled while looking around herself.
" It probably is sweet-pea."
She see's a painting of a priest that looks very familiar.
" Hey guys..."
Everyone comes up behind Mai and sees the painting. Songo looks closely.
" Doesn't that look a lot like..."
" Dylan."
Mai answered for her while Shippo seemed to be looking a bit lower.
" There's a name at the bottom but it's faded."
" Does he really look like me?"
Kagome nodded from beside him.
" The spitting image. Huh, he has the same swords in his hands."
Miroku looked closer at the priest.
" And a bow. He must have been a most powerful priest."
Mai tilted her head slightly to the side.
" I guess... That's a lot of sharp... shiny..."
Her attention was drawn elsewhere to a huge box of gems, crystals and special looking stones. Along next to it was a pile of old
books. Dylan face-palmed.
" Didn't take Mai long to be Mai... And there she goes taking them."
" Hey! You're the priest. I see no harm in making these poor things useful."
" Huh. There are a lot of books. I wounder what's inside them. Hey... look over there."
Dylan points to a faint glow coming from a different room. Mai mock bows.
" You first, oh man of glowiness."
Mai laughs while Dylan gives her a disturbed look.
" T_T Really Mai?"
He leads everyone into the room to find the glow coming from dual swords like in the painting.
" Wow."
" This is what got your attention the last time. And that's the same light."
Mai seemed to be thinking hard about something.
" Dylan, pick them up. I want to see something."
" Um... OK." ' I just hope I don't black out again.'
When he lifts them into his hands they begin to glow a bit brighter while Mai opens a scroll.
" Interesting. I guess that explains why you smell like the ocean Dyl."
" Really? What does?"
" According to these old-ass scrolls, that guy... or you... were... are... what ever! Those swords were made with the essence of ocean
lilies which in turn gives them water based abilities."
Sango nodded towards Mai.
" That would explain the attack from yesterday."
" What attack? Remember guys, I don't know what you're talking about."
Mai looked to Inuyasha.
" You explain. I'ma go look around a bit more."
Inuyasha went into explaining what happened yesterday with the attack while Kagome took a closer look at the bow in the painting.
" There is something really familiar about that bow."
Miroku looks that turned to her.
" Kagome, let me see the bow you got from Mount Azuna."
As they compared them they hit a realization.
" It's the same bow!"
*With Mai*
As she snooped around and looked things over, she shoved into her bag anything that caught her interest or she thought would be
useful later on. As she was finishing she came across a journal. She picked it up and made her way back to the other.
" Hey Dyl, I think this is yours."
He turned to her and stared at the journal.
" What else could my past life have had?"
" A journal. I found it in one of the other rooms."
" This is getting a little weird."
" Yeah. Considering it looks a hell of a lot like the one you have. Especially the color."
" Ok. This is creepy."