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Chapter 1: Through the Well
"What about me?" I asked, curious and somewhat annoyed at the tone of how he had addressed me.
"Get your fricking butt out of here! You're going to get killed." I eyed him warily. Okay, so he was saying such things and waving the huge sword in his hand like it was a rattle. I mentally sighed, was this a kind of practice for a play or a weird ritual to drive off evil spirits perhaps?
"Yeah right, like, you're the only one who can kill me here." I spoke, regarding the girl to be pretty harmless unless she'd launched at me and gouged my eyes out with her nails. My hands immediately flew to my eyes, shielding them while I peered through the cracks. Can't be too sure nowadays.
Apparently, the pair was paranoid at what I did and silence was the only thing that was present for the span of ten seconds before whitey's head worked again. "Stupid idiot! I'm not going to use Tessaiga on you, I'd be wasting the effort. Get your fricking arse out of here!" He yelled at me while waving his fist. I sighed and threw my arms overhead.
"All right, all right. I get it, you don't want visitors. Remind me not to waltz in when there's a commotion and when that commotion makes me curious and when I am curious makes me waltz in and when I waltz be kicked out. Yeah, that pretty much sums it all up." I sighed and turned to leave, my hands now tucked in the pockets of my pants and my gym bag slung upon my shoulder. My shoes kicked on the dirt that settled upon the stone floor of the shrine and trudged my way back towards the bottom.
Yet it seemed that fate decided to make life into a satire. "Watch out!" A feminine voice cried out and I turned around, curiosity and annoyance crossing over my features, "What now?"
But there was only a gray blur and no sooner I felt myself being constricted by an invisible force. I grimaced at the force that the constriction was putting upon me. I feared that my bones would break if it grew any tighter. My hand was firmly grasping the strap to my gym bag in place and the presence of the item did not ease the situation since it only made the constriction much more painful. I gritted my teeth in pain and helpless, I'm supposed to be a kendo person; I should get out of this.
Yet as much as I told myself such, nothing seemed to make the constriction any loose. I turned to where the other people in the place where and it seemed they in a heated argument. Talk about expecting them to save your arse. I seriously wanted to cut the thing that was constricting around me. It's so annoying that it just happened to be invisible with my eyes.
I could pick up some words from the two's argument.
"If you cut it, you'll end up getting her killed and we don't have Tenseiga to revive her!"
"I know, I know. Sheesh! No need to tell me."
I mentally sighed, so he had thought of cutting me up along with the… uh, thing. I wanted to kick him where the sun doesn't shine and be done with my business here. Apparently the thing that was wrapped around me had a mind of its own and since I'm poor little hostage I could do nothing than be dragged as it sped somewhere. I flew between the two people and headed into the house which had its sliding doors wide open. The invisible tentacle, because I think it is and don't argue with me, dragged me into the well which was situated in the center of the interior.
I feared that the impact of the ground would break my skull and kill me eventually. I closed my eyes bracing for the pain but it never came, rather I get a different sensation like being afloat. I opened my eyes quickly, the iron-grip hold on me never loosened but my eyes widened to my surroundings. It was weird, like passing through a portal. Everything was sort of magenta-ish and there were this small orbs that lighted the path throughout the way. No sooner, I felt like I was sucked in and the chirping of the crickets fell upon my ears.
There was thicket of trees in the area as soon the invisible thing had wrapped itself around me. Wait-forest!? Where did the roof go? The stone floors?! Where's civilization?!
I glared at the invisible thing that was currently taking hostage of me, "Okay you invisible thing, show yourself before I make minced meat out of you." I heard a malicious chuckle and the next thing that my eyes came upon was the gray scales of a large snake. "You a mere human best me?! How laughable." It hissed down at me. I whistled, this thing could outdo Anaconda all right and it can talk too!
I struggled at the tightening sensation of its body coiling around me. "You're scent is so delicious. I could not help to pass you." It flicked its forked tongue down at me and I moved back to avoid it from touching my skin. You never know, its saliva could be acid! It hissed at me once again and then turned back to the well; the guy and the girl were now there. Apparently the girl was now armed, within her grasp was a bow and upon her back was a quiver of arrows.
"Be careful not to hit her Inuyasha!"
"I get it!"
She loaded an arrow unto the bow and shot it towards the huge snake; a pinkish light was upon the arrow tip while it swerved through the air and then hit its mark. The huge snake let out a pained hiss and writhed. Apparently, it seemed to forget that I was within its bounds and squeezed me tighter. I screamed at the intense pain the creature was putting on me. Oh how I so wanted to stab it like no tomorrow with a real sword.
It hissed once again as another arrow had hit it and this time, the creature uncoiled me and I manage to crawl out of its writhing body. My legs felt so numb and my arms as well, my whole body ached but it's better than snake food. The girl rushed to me instantly and the guy did an attack that seared the earth and tore the snake into a hundred pieces.
"Are you all right?"
"Being constricted to death like your bones is going to break? Why yes I'm quite fine." Oh sarcasm was my best friend. Everyone who knew me would quickly notice the sarcastic tongue I held but I would not be changing ideals any time soon. Her brow twitched and I could not help myself from smirking, "I'm fine really, just body ache." She nodded, pleased with my answer this time before heading to the minced pieces of the snake and picking up a shiny thing.
I approached the guy and asked him as soon as he had sheathed the sword, "Where is this place anyways? What happened to civilization? Did aliens abduct us?" He cocked a silver brow at my inquiries and crossed his arms over his chest, "You could at least say a thank you first." I sighed and forced the words out of my mouth, "Thank you then."
He frowned at me and then 'keh'ed as soon as the girl approached us. She was slightly taller than I am, probably older than me? "Are you all right?" She asked me and I answered with a nod of my head. "Where is this place? What happened to civilization?"
"We're currently in feudal Japan. Apparently, this is the current era's civilization." I swear my eyes were as wide as saucers when she answered me.
"Seriously?!"
"Sadly, yes."
I pinched the bridged of my nose out of frustration, how the hell did I get myself into this kind of situation? Oh yeah, because I let my curiosity lead me here. "So how do I get back to our time?" I know that if anyone heard of me story-telling this they would think I'd be insane. Here I am stuck with psychos, what other thing to do than to go along with the flow?
"You get back through the well." The girl said.
"Okay, so I just jump right in?" Her nod gave me my answer and I quickly stepped unto the edge and jumped into the well but with my view. I shuddered at the contents of the well in this side. It was filled with numerous bones and a shiver ran down my spine as I would be jumping into an eerie well. I gulped and steadied my gym bag before I jumped into the well.
I expected to get back to that odd sensation when I passed through the well earlier. But apparently…