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Chapter 30: More Training!
Kagome stood in the pastures used for training Sesshomaru's men and waited for the others to approach her. Miroku soon walked up next to her, scroll in hand. He then opened it and decided to begin as the two demons walked over to join them.
"Whats the first one?" asked Kagome standing, head high shoulders straight, ready to take on the world. She had trained hard by herself and in the underwater mountain range, and now she would see if anything had been gained from practicing with her powers, control and just the general exercises she had to put up with.
"Well they seem to go down the list in order of difficulty the top being the easiest of things to do and the bottom the hardest. I think some of these I have seen you do before. You can pull water from the air and grass around you, we have seen that, you can make spears and turn water easily from a gas to a liquid or even a solid form." Miroku began going to the bottom of the list, muttering to himself. "There seems to be only a couple things left on this list. Well, lets try them shall we?"
"Hn." Kagome nodded as her back straightened.
"Well we cant necessarily do this here, we are going to need a big body of water."
"There is a stream that deposits into a lake nearby, I know where it is." Kagome then began to walk over and around the side of the building till they reached said body of water. Once there Kagome walked into the water up to her waist and focused some of her energy on not transforming. He looked over to the monk and nodded once she was ready.
"Ok, lets start with a waterspout.", he read it and showed the picture to Kagome.
"Now this one seems easy enough for you, you just have to do this, somehow, I'm sorry I cant instruct because I don't know much about your powers and that is why I believe we might have the upper hand since neither, hopefully, does Naraku."
"yeah." mumbled Kagome as she walked into the water and then dived into the deeper zones. Once a couple feet underwater she turned around and looked up. She would need to create a column of water with her in the middle as if the water was carrying her. She concentrated on her powers and the water as she slightly meditated, she was happy that even with her legs she didn't really have to worry about holding her breath. She called her powers out of her and spun herself and her arms in a quick circle to get the water moving and then pushed the water up and swam. She ended up getting slapped in the face with water that had been shot into the air. She hadnt done it right. She dived back down to see what she had done wrong.. it couldn't be that hard, 'what did she know about water?' she asked herself as she calmed down and thought. It was like the wind in that it was free flowing but, it was also smooth and shapeless, but can form any shape at will. You couldn't push water and expect it to do what you wanted, you had to lead it like the land lead the ocean away from the moon.
She dived a bit lower to try again and this time she spun once and getting the water to spin and then swam up leading the water up. She stopped swimming as she felt the water pull her to the surface and lift her from the water. She looked down to see the others looking up at her in amazement and her inu smirking softly. She raised her arms on both sides of her and watched amazed as two more water sprouts popped up next to her, twirling around and around she then moved her arms forward and watched as the water spouts bent and moved around her, circling her, encasing her.
'hm, I wonder if I could shoot them at those trees?' she thought and just as she finished the sentence in her mind and looked at the trees the water spouts began to shoot shards of water and ice at the trees. She was impressed that just the thought alone was enough to command the water to do her bidding. She then brought her arms down and watched as the water lowered her back into the lake and the other two spouts disappeared.
"Next!" she called to Miroku. Miroku sat up straight and came closer to her. He then motioned for her to come out. She then pushed her self up and began to walk across the surface of the water.
"You have just done the next one with the creation of multiple spouts and you also walked on the water soo, next is controlling the water in a living thats all that it says..." spoke Miroku as he looked up to Kagome. She was frowning.
"Whats wrong?" asked Miroku.
"Thats to dangerous, and I was forbidden to even attempt it, I dont think I should..."
"Forbidden why?" asked Sesshomaru as he stepped closer to the frowning Kagome.
"Because, I can control any living creature, and they cant do anything about it, and it is painful for who ever it is used on. I refuse to do so, I could hurt someone." she said as she stepped back.
Sesshomaru sighed he couldn't force her, she obviously sounded like she knew what it was and how to basically do it, he wouldn't push it."
"Is there something..."
"YOU whimp, I knew you couldn't do it, your just being a pussy and chickening out like those damned neko youkai." Sesshomaru growled he hated being interuppted. Kagome glared at him.
"Oh really yasha?" she was about sick and tired of his damned mouth. Her voice was icy and chilling, like the darkest and deepest place in the oceans. "Let me show you then..." she merely looked up at the hanyou before he began to whimper, his shoulders and back moving unaturally until he stood straight. His arm then moved up and took his sword in his hand and then threw it to the floor. "Say Inuyasha, what is my name again? I dont think you said it right."
Inuyasha tried to close his mouth but with the sound of bones cracking and breaking his mouth was wrenched open with a pitiful cry and an unnatural sound was brought forth, even though it sounded like a distorted form of his voice. He spoke "Ka. Go. Me."
"Good boy, Inuyasha." said Kagome her voice cool and calm "Now, Sit." she said softly and everyone watched as he face planted into the grown creating an Inuyasha sized crater. All was silent except for Inuyasha's whimpering.
"Serves him right." said Sesshomaru as Miroku chuckled. Kagome looked to them with shock in her eyes. This was the first time any one had approved of her using this particular technique. She smiled faintly.
"Now as I was saying before I was rudely cut off." ground out Sesshomaru as his only reply was another groan and whimper, he began "Is there a similar technique that you are more comfortable doing?"
"Yeah, its basically the same thing except with plants, its one of the few things my father taught me before he left."
Kagome lifted her arm and watched as a vines snapped to attention, coming off of the trees to get closer to her and all the trees swaying in her direction. Also when she lifted her other arm all the grass stood up tall and began to way in a little dance. She then hummed a jolly good fellow and watched as the vines, trees, and grass swayed and bobbed to the beat.
Miroku had already rolled the scroll up when Kagome finished her tune and let the grass, trees and vines go back to their original positions. She had been working on that technique for along time now.
"I do think we might be ready." said Miroku optimistically.
"I do hope so." whispered Kagome as she held her inu from around the waist. They watched as the sun set and Inuyasha pulled his self from the whole he had dug his self into, literally.
"It is time."spoke Sesshomaru as the last of the suns rays disappeared from the sky the crescent moon coming up to take its place.
reviews would be nice coming up next is chapter 31 the last battle?
And yes I may have eluded to blood bending from the avatar the last airbender in this story, you all know it doesnt belong to me soo hey, but I thought it would be cool to use here. I also dont own any songs mentioned in the story so far or the characters besides the ones I make up randomly.
So review and see you next time on A Mermaids Tear and Song chapter 31: The Last Battle?
p.s. i have gotten alot of good questions which i would like to place here:
for those that are confuzzled by the Ren Rin, it was a typo on my part that i totally didnt realize, my computer kept changing it sorry. but Ren is kagome's mermaid friend that really was the first cause for kagome to leave her harmless and rather useless infant stage of life. she is also a miz of both Rin and Sango in mannerisms, she is both sweet, blunt, serious, kind and a bit rough around the edges. i tried to make that mix very nicely when her and sessh were alone together looking for kags.
now for confusion on kagome being untrained. well i cant talk to much about this because it will come up again in the story but basically, if kagome stayed untrained she would be of no use besides a wish granter to those would want to use her for evil. because literally she could be used as a weapon of mass destruction as the prophecy has stated, but thats in the wrong hands, it also plays into why father was gone and why she was forbidden to step onto land.
she was forbidden because it pretty much meant that the prophecy was starting, and father was trying to protect her so he lied told her she couldnt go on land that way she would hopefully not want to go near the land, which in their history was the source of their plight if you remember back to how they came to existence and yes i made that up strictly for this story so no you wont find it any where, maybe... lol
also father lied he wasnt away looking for the answer to the prophecy, but away around it, you'll find out later lol. they already knew the prophecy was her and so did she atleast that part of it, kagome has many secrets and shes trying to play a double life, but just like any secret, something will bring it to the light and you will find out more of those as this continues on because this story is no where near done, read the prophecy over and you might figure out what i mean. lol
kagome and reproduction an dress and stuff, yes she is naked from the waist up its pretty much tail and then navel /belly and up as well as all the merpeople. but her hair is often pulled infront of her like a curtain to cover her chest since its is below waist-length if you can remember me mentioning that, it was a while ago lol. she compares the men to whales to show that yes they are mammal like in that they dont lay eggs, but however the men are more like dolphins in that there little johns and whatever men name their penises lol are not just hanging around and out their on display.
her size has to do with the curse, it helps point her out from the rest, making it easier for her to spot as well as the color her eyes glow, in representation between the ocean and the moon from which she was born. yes the other mermaids eyes glow what ever color their eyes are with specks of blue and silver in them.
lifespan mermaids age like youkai, they are very ancient creatures, but they do die, since kagome is a curse on the people part of her curse is that she will continue to live even after her mother and father die, but there her mother and father because they helped her into the world, technically she is a being of pure power straight from the pain and love of the ocean and moon and the hatred and hurt of the land as well as the sadness and fear the mermaids felt for having her there. those four make the jewel within her powerful and those four fuel her own power, unless her true parents die, she will live forever. so lets say the moon is destroyed all the merpeople will pretty much lose their powers,and kagome will be weakened due to a loss of part of her, but unlike the rest she has two other parents the land gave her power as well.
oh yes the prophecy it is basically three parts (the long one that is) so try and figure out what those are before i tell you myself lol and remember what the old hag witch doctor and the fish said thats also important to know ;) lol, just a heads up. so it kinda like 5 prophecies revolving around this girl, the ones most know of including legends and tales of merpeople (old hag prophecy) then the shortened version that all fish and merpeople know (the koi fish) just by seeing her and then the one naraku found out about and the one those closest to her know of(the long one).
Kuroi, she has learned how to control her powers make barriers, hide her presence and much more, but of course they had just gotten home and were not expecting an attack so soon, but dont worry all happens for a reason as you will see, especially when she revealed a bit more about herself in this chapter. she knows plenty of things that she doesnt mention. their will be flash backs dont worry my lovely readers lol. hopefully the rouse ive invented here doesnt fool you soon enough, she does hide behind her smile much like sesshomaru and naraku hide behind their "Masks".
if there are any more questions please feel free to pms me or review i am happy to fix any mistakes or confusion there might be about this and yes its gonna be long, not 100 chapters long, but still long for me, i plan on completing this story before i even attempt the other stories which should be as long if not longer then this one when i get to them.
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