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Don't own Final Fantasy VII, Yu-Gi-Oh, InuYasha, or ANY of the anime, movies, book, or manga characters/stories! Only Rose and... Well, you get the message.
Chapter XXVIII: Encounterment After Action
3rd P.O.V.
"So, you have decided to cooperate and deliever the cheetah," the voice of a man rings in the air as Sesshomaru approaches the place that he was told to be at. Rose stands behind him, looking like she was beaten - chained hands and unable to run away, as well.
"Hmph. She has no importance to me," Sesshomaru said coldly as the man lands in front of the Lord of the West. "This Sesshomaru holds to his word, but will you, Kybio?"
"Rest assured, I will. Stay off your lands when without permission, leave you alone, and all that crap. Now, the girl?"
With a tug, Rose walks forward like an obediant girl/slave to the semi-long, purple-haired man with white pupils, and dressed in a silver and blue yakata. He holds a smirk as he takes ahold of the chain that hangs from her wrists.
'Hm, she is taller than she looked upon her arrival...' he thought, but doesn't think twice about it. The plan to take her powers for his own is, to him, quite simple as long as she doesn't fight back. "Excellent to work and do business with you, mi'lord," Kybio said as he mockingly bows. "Heh, farewell!" With that said, a large raven appears and land beside the two. Kybio has Rose board and the bird takes to the skies again.
"GAAAAH, I can't believe that Rose has to do this alone!" Ebony said once the raven was out of sight, she and most of the others hiding from sight, sound, and sense of smell of Kybio.
"Don't worry, young mistriss," Myoga said. "If what you and the others said is true, Rine can certainly take care of the situation and have the cheetah youkai safe."
"The cheetah has a name, and that's Rose!"
Meanwhile, Kybio is congratulating himself of the strangely easy accomplishment. Which eventually gets him to wonder how, indeed, that Sesshomaru has manage to defeat something such as the girl.
'As I know he is strong, I thought that the girl would be much more stronger...' he thought. Looking at Rose a bit suspisiously and coldly, he growls at how she is very... calm. Something must be up. "Cheetah, do tell me how Sesshomaru defeated you," he said calmly. No response. "Bitch, I suggest you look at me, before I end up breaking a wing in order to get your attention."
No movement at first, Rose slowly turns her head towards Kybio. With a smirk on her face.
"You think you can?" Rose, who is actually Rine, said as she raises her hands and the chains slip off. "I would like to see you try."
"Hmph... I should have expected this," Kybio said as though he did. "I better subdue you, then!" The raven caws as Kybio launches a blast of thorns at Rine, who jumps up and off the bird, soon overhead the both of them. "Kahahaha... Now THIS is going to be entertaining. Prepare to be my slave, cheetah! For your powers shall be mine!"
"I will like to see you try, scum." Launching an Heaven's Strike attack, she scores a hit in the wing of the raven, the bird going down. Kybio merely jumps off as the raven disappears into the trees of the forest, floating in the air... Or at least looks it. He is actually supported by thin vines.
'He must have the ability to control the element Earth...' Rine thought as she goes in for another attack. 'This will, indeed, be an interesting fight... Learn from this fight, Rose.'
I will, believe it...
The air flight and fight continues for nearly an hour, Rose/Rine having to dodge launched vines from the ground and then shoot off her own attacks. Rose knows that there was more attacks than Heaven's Strike, but Rine doesn't seem to want to use any other right now for some reason. Rose doesn't really give care, though.
Another vine from the right! she shouts, Rine dodging it in time.
'I think that I will be unable to continue this for long...' Rine thought to Rose as Kybio is also slightly panting. 'It is been a long while since I have fought, besides with that gang.'
If need to be, we can always get away, if only for a little while to rest.
"Little cheetah, how can you expect to defeat me?" Kybio said, taking the time that Rine talking to Rose as a sign of tiredness. "Your strength isn't enough to fight me, even with your powers. You have locked-up powers, of which I will be the one to possess!"
"Not likely," Rine said as she glows brightly. The attack drains the ability to even hear or see any of what is going on outside of the head, Rose couldn't watch what happens next. The results to her are completely blank as to what feels like hours later, she finds herself in the place of Rine.
I could not continue... My strength is not what they once were... Rine said before she fades away. Rose looks to see that Kybio is smoking of the result of the attack.
"...Bitch... You will pay for that..." Kybio growls as the vines around, which were once burnt, are now healthy green again, as well as thorny with red tips - meaning poisonous thorns.
'Ohhhhh shit...' Rose is automatically guessing that this is not going to end nicely as the thorns comes at her. She barely manages to dodge most of them, though the ones that hit sears pain in her arms and wings, numbness already setting in within a matter of seconds.
"Poison that can bring down even the mighty Sesshomaru and cheetah youkai!" Kybio said joyously as Rose lands on the ground, panting from all the barrel-rolling. "Do you give up?!"
"No... I will never surrender!" she said as she glows like Rine did. "Life's Judgement!"
Rose's P.O.V.
What happened after that, I have no clue. Everything went black at that point. All I know is, I can't move my arms, or anything. Hell, I can't even open my eyes...
'Where am I...? Is that guy gone?' I thought as I struggle with my eyes, though I only accomplish moving my head to the side. '...Okay, don't panic about the inability to open eyes... It's normal. I might have hit my head and all my muscles refuses to move at the moment. It happened once, at Yugi's house... Though it was because of that bear attacking. Okay, try again...'
This time, I manage to flicker my eyes to open, though I instantly shut them from the light of the fire nearby.
'Owwwwww, that was bright... Well... No wonder I feel warm and fuzzy, I'm near a campsite and someone wrapped me in some blanket. Though who is the person or people, is my question...'
"You finally wake up," I hear someone next to me say. The warmth I was feeling moves away as whoever it is pads over to the other side, apparently looking into my face. Why I know, is because the light dims. "How're you feeling?"
"Peachy..." I said as I open an eyelid. What meets my eye is a silver jaguar's face. "Since you have not eaten me yet, I will assume that you rescued me."
"Not much to rescueing, but finding you unconscious after the big fight I witnessed, I wanted to help you somehow," he said as he gives a catty-smile. "The least I could do, I guess, right?"
"I guess..." I give a sneeze as I force my body to move into a sitting position.
"You don't have to get up on my account," he said as he sits. "So, what's your name, and what are you?"
"Rose. I'm a white cheetah demon... person-type... Eh... Who are you? And do you have a different form from that?"
He laughs as he shifts from jaguar to his more human form - medium length, reddish-brown hair, green eyes, a slight look of a goatee growing on his chin, and wearing what looks like modern, normal clothes. He wears a black t-shirt, slighty baggy blue jeans, a black leather collar, and even has earrings in his ears.
"The name's Ryan. I usually am in this form, but I went jaguar to keep you warm. I doubt that you would be happy to find a stranger laying with you as human, even to keep you from shivering."
"Yeah, I doubt I would be," I said with a slight laugh. I oddly feel... safe with this guy, Ryan. But even with this feeling, I shouldn't trust him just yet. Not completely, anyways... "Thank you, for not eating me and keeping me warm."
"Psh, no problem in my part."
"Hey... what did happen to the man I was fighting with?" I said as I realize that I have no clue of what has resulted from my attack.
"The result is that tree," Ryan said as he points to a very HUGE tree.
"Huh?"
"Your attack somehow turned him into that tree. No, really, I'm serious!" he said as I look at him with much question.
"How... could I do that?"
"You don't know? You're the one that did it."
"...Well... At least I don't have to worry about him anymore..." I said as I try to supress a shiver. I'm feeling so cold and sore, weak from the fighting and lack of food (of which I am now wishing I should have eaten). Ryan notices it, anyhow.
"If I had a blanket, I'd give it to you, but nope," he said with some concern. "How about sitting closer to the fire? It might help more."
"Y-yeah," I said as I did move closer to the fire. Now I got a lot to ponder about. 'I turned a guy into a frickin' tree... How da hell I do that?' I thought while getting warmer.
"You know, Rose really does suit you," Ryan said after awhile.
"Oh?" I snap out of my thoughts while looking at him. That catches me by surprise.
"Ha ha. Don't ask why, other than you turned a guy into a plant. Not that it's a bad thing, of course! He deserved it, I know that. Where I live at, I would love for that to be anyone's punishment!"
"And where do you live at?"
"Canada."
"Canada?? ...You are not from this world, are you?"
"Will you actually believe me if I told you?"
"Yeah... For I am not of this world, either." Ryan looks very happy about the fact that I seem to know what's going on.
"So I'm not the only one! Thank goddess!"
"And not the only ones," I continue. "Ebony and many others are from different worlds, though you, I, and Ebony are from the same one. I think so, anyways."
"If that's the case, then is it okay that I come along? In the morning, of course, but... Yeah, I don't want to stay here forever. I somehow got sucked into a purple portal or vortex, and ended up here."
Here comes that slight sinking feeling for me...
"Eh heh… It might be of my fault, though don't ask why right now. I don't really know at the moment."
"Huh? Then how come you're thinking it's your fault?"
"…Well, it's like this…"
Ebony's P.O.V.
"ROSE!!"
"Woman, the yelling won't be heard from where she is," Inuakki said as I continue to yell for my best friend. Ever since that Rose, as Rine, disappeared out of view, then a long while later two giant flashes of light bursted from the direction Rine/Rose and Kybio went, I've been looking for her. So did many of the others that knows Rose, such as Kadaj, Aeris, Yugi, and many others. It baffles Inuakki, Sesshomaru, and some of the other newcomers why we care so frickin' much about the weird girl.
"Shut up!"
"She's bound and determined to find wing girl," Haruru said with a yawn.
"Rose is more than just a winged girl," Myoga said with a scrowl. He was going to talk more, but I didn't hear as I take off running again. I'm going to find her, no matter what!
Been awhile, eh? Eh?! XD;;;; Sorries to Ebony and others, but my house is currently under work, soooo yeah, computers were disconnected for quite awhile of time! Hope you enjoyed the chappie!