Chapter 14 - Showdown at the Castle
Inu no Taisho heaved a heavy sigh, he had been out for days with his army searching for the demon but found nothing. Standing on the cliff, the breeze carrassed his face, he took a deep breath.
"This is no time for rest" He muttered to himself as he turned and was about to walked away when he was interrupted.
"My lord!" A guard panted "My lord! bad news!" The guard ran towards Inu no Taisho. "The castle's been attacked!"
"What?" Inu no Taisho growled, the guard shrinked away as he watched his angered lord. Inu no Taisho clenched his fist "Damnit!" He dashed towards the castle.
Sesshomaru and Kiyoshimaru stood on fighting stance as poisonous miasma poured in the castle. They were with Izayoi and Inuyasha when the castle alarm broke off, Kiyoshimaru had Izayoi and Inuyasha stayed in the room as they're most vulnerable to the poisonous miasma, guards rushed to their aid as they stood firm. Sesshomaru cracked his claws when he noticed four sillhoutes among the miasma.
Blades shot out from the fog and Sesshomaru managed to dodged them gracefully but the guards around him was hit. When he turned to check on his mother, he saw that Kiyoshimaru was on a claw to claw combat with a demon. The demon wore red ancient samurai armors, his short black hair was tied into a short ponytail, the demon's fangs dripped of poison as he clawed mercilessly at Kiyoshimaru. Before Sesshomaru could dashed to aid his mother, a demon in purple armor swung his pike at Sesshomaru, missing him by just an inch.
"Heh, you're a fast one arent you?" The demon in purple said, he looked over at Kiyoshimaru "Tough mother you have there."
"Tai, Jin, don't be so rude to our prey." Two demons came out from the fog of miasma, they wore the same armors except these two are in blue and green. The purple demon backed down but the red demon continued to attacked.
"Jin's having too much fun to stop it seemed." Tai, the purple demon pointed out.
"Indeed." The green demon noted, he then turned his attention to Sesshomaru.
"Who are you?" Sesshomaru demanded, raising his claws into a battle stance.
"You'll have to find that out yourself" The green demon sneered and charged at Sesshomaru, as to that, the other demons started attacking anyone who comes in their way.
"Woah, they're good" Batsura whose floating in the sky watched the battle unfold.
"Indeed." The demon lord observed "Now, on to our job." it flew towards Inuyasha's room with Batsura following close behind.
Izayoi embraced Inuyasha tightly as they could hear the battle going on out there. She could feel Inuyasha trembling in her arms and she tried to soothed the pup with comforting words.
"Such a sight for sore eyes." A voice interrupted them. Inuyasha jerked upon hearing the voice and Izayoi clearly noticed that. She also realized that Inuyasha was whimpering. Izayoi looked around the room but couldnt see anyone. Suddenly, a hand gripped Izayoi and pulled her away from her son.
"Batsura!" Izayoi turned around and saw Batsura having a firm gripped on both her arms. "Let go of me!" Izayoi struggled, he glanced at Inuyasha, whose sat there whimpering and muttering incoherent words almost hysterically. "Inuyasha!" Izayoi called out when she saw someone standing behind her pup.
Inuyasha was consumed by fear, he felt someone behind him and he knew very well who it was. He didnt dare turned, he just sat there paralyzed. The figure behind him grabbed his collar and turned the pup around to face it. Inuyasha's eyes widened in fear and he started clawing around recklessly, struggling to break free. He screamed and trashed around but the demon had a tight gripped on him, after all, he's just a small pup.
"Remember me Inuyasha?" The demon snickered, it ran its claws around Inuyasha's waist, cutting into his flesh. "Remember this pain?" It dug its claws deeper causing Inuyasha to screamed "Remember this fun we had?" The demon laughed, he lifted Inuyasha by the neck and threw him at the far wall like a rag doll.
"Inuyasha!" Izayoi screamed as she struggled harder, but to no avail.
The pain ripped through Inuyasha like a thousand swords stabbing him all at once. "M..Mo..ther..." Inuyasha whined, he felt himself being lifted up by the hair, he could smell the foul breath of the demon now that he's brought face to face with the demon.
"Mother? You want your mother?" The demon spat, then it threw Inuyasha hard on the floor infront of Izayoi. "Watch closely pup." it grinned as it approached Izayoi, it roughly cupped Izayoi's face with its hand and traced her face with his claws. Then it raised its claws and brought it down at Izayoi.
A sudden rushed of unfamiliar demonic aura that came from Inuyasha's room made Sesshomaru tensed and the demon he was fighting managed to knocked him off the ground. Sesshomaru fell and was unable to dodged the coming attacked, he fully expected the pain to ripped through his flesh but it never came. As he looked up, relief washed over him. Inu no Taisho stood infront of Sesshomaru, his father had came and managed to fought off the demons to retreat. But before anyone could say or do anything, Inu no Taisho rushed off the Inuyasha's room.
Inu no Taisho burst into the room, his eyes widened in both shocked and fear. Blood splattered around the dark room, he saw Izayoi lying on the ground, covered in blood and beside her, Batsura sat, staring at something in fear. Inu no Taisho's eyes adjusted to what Batsura was looking at as angered rised in him.