Author's note: If you see me use the word demon in the story please let me know. I am trying to use youkai since demon is inaccurate and a mistranslation but I may have have mistakenly put it in. Also if you see grammar or spelling errors or unclear sentence construction let me know so I can edit as needed.
Chapter 44 Counter Measures
Situated far back from the front line and with thirty wolf youkai guarding her (and Hakkaku and Ginta overseeing them,) Kagome thought the disquiet eating at the edges of her mind must have been misplaced. Nonetheless, she couldn't shake the feeling that there was something they were all overlooking.
But I can only do what I can do and that means focusing on Wei.
Sitting cross-legged on the ground, she closed her eyes and opened herself fully to the spiritual world; the din of battle, the coppery aroma blood, even the feel of the hard ground beneath her melted away as the incorporeal world opened a disturbing new vista for her. Wei appeared in her vision with dark eyes filled with inhuman malice. Physically, she knew he was nowhere nearby, but his presence was so strong he seemed to be next to her.
They did not bother trying to communicate with each other; there was nothing to say. She focused on the rage-tainted power Wei was pouring out. It was being focused through what appeared to be a scroll made of golden light, but it defied simple classification. It shifted incomprehensibly, refusing to be recognized and she realized that her mind could not understand fully what she was perceiving. Its appearance as a scroll was simply her mind trying to make it more comprehensible for her. All she could tell for certain was that it was ancient beyond words to describe and it was used to transmit information between the worlds.
And Wei wants to use it to destroy Japan.
Directed through the scroll, Wei's power beat rhythmically on the spiritual plane; a silent symphony in the night played to an almost deaf audience for the purpose of annihilating said audience.
The tempo was a unique signature for the summoned and spaces between the chords created an invitation and direction for it.
Although she was not aware of it, the air around Kagome began to hum and her form became impossible to discern as pinkish white light erupted from her like a star as she began to introduce counter notes into Wei's summoning symphony.
Overhead, the false starlight Wei had created began to flicker and the expanding scars across the dark canopy of the heavens slowed their ominous spread.
Wei came in hard and fast, striking at Sesshoumaru with such ferocity that even the surrounding cacophony of battle could do nothing to drown out the furious clash of their blades. Sesshoumaru took half a step back and then scythed the Tessaiga at Wei's left flank. Wei, spinning inside the arc of the cut, parried it wide with the Shining Hate. Unexpectedly, Sesshoumaru found himself staring at the back of Wei's head, but that lasted for only an instant before Wei continued the spin, pivoting on his right foot and smashing the heel of his left foot against Sesshoumaru's face.
Sesshoumaru staggered backward with blood gushing out of his broken nose, but managed to rip off a man sized chunk of the wall just as a red and gold geyser of flame erupted from the Shining Hate. Using the wall section as an improvised shield, Sesshoumaru rushed forward against the spewing inferno, slammed into Wei with it and knocked him down to the cobbled stones of the wall-walk with its weight. Without pause, Sesshoumau used his flight abilities to apply downward pressure, trapping Wei and the Shining Hate beneath him.
"Kagome tells me you are trying to summon something out of heaven," Sesshoumaru said as the cartilage in his nose began to knit itself back together; he saw no reason to divulge Daesung's role in learning this. "There is no way you could achieve that on your own. Who are you working with?"
"To tell you the truth, I didn't get his name," Wei responded while his lips twisted into a condescending smile and Sesshoumaru brought down the Tessaiga to decapitate him. "But for you it is hardly a matter of concern. You will never meet him."
There was the sudden sound of air filling an empty space and Sesshoumaru's instincts kicked in; he rolled to the side just in time to avoid a jet of flame. One of the Weis dressed in samurai armor had appeared behind him and was wielding the Shining Hate.
How did it move to that Wei? I know it was with this one.
Further time to consider the mystery was cut short as the Wei he had pinned down with the wall lashed out and grabbed the hand holding the Tessaiga and twisted brutally. Sesshoumaru gritted his teeth and bore the sudden pain in silence, but could not hold on to the Tessaiga and it slipped from his grasp just as the Shining Hate lined up perfectly to reduce Sesshoumaru to a cinder.
"I don't normally eat dog but for you I can make an exception," the two Weis said in unison.
