A new chapter is out and the end is drawing near... but for whom^^
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I summon demons!
Kirara felt a hand push down from above, grip around her tiny body and yanked her up again. Filled with fury, rage and an overwhelming desire for revenge, Kirara transformed with a thundering roar in a burst of hellish flames. What happened next, she almost missed because it happened with such an astonishing speed, even for her demonic senses.
Whoever had pulled her up, let out an ear deafening scream and lost his grip on her the moment she started to grow and burn. Two frightened figures jumped high into the air, turned around before their feet reached the floor and ran towards a door. One of them ran right through a huge vase that was in his way, smashing it to thousand pieces without losing speed. The other one accidently bumped into a shelf with glassware and sent it and everything on top of it to the floor with a loud crash.
Kirara stood still for a short moment, watching how two men tore the door open and ran screaming through it simultaneously. As soon as they left, Kirara understood something was wrong and looked around, this was obviously not the place where she had been thrown off from! But who were the two frightened males who left in such a hurry? Kirara sniffed the air; yes, it was no doubt about it! The scent was a familiar one. It was the two thieves from her last visit in this world, an entertaining duo but non one she thought should be worried about. Kagome and the child were in trouble and she wasn't there to help, what a protector she had turned out to be. The worst of it all however, was that she now understood that the creepy man who had kicked her, couldn't be a human. Inu Yasha was going to skin her alive if something happened to his girl. Abruptly, an infernal noise thundered through the room, it was high pitched, ear deafening and sounded like a demon on its death throes. And as if that wasn't enough, she also started hearing voices from several people shouting and yelling from outside. This was certainly not the place for her to be and hearing the footsteps coming closer, Kirara jumped over to a window and looked outside, just in time to see Hideki and Kuniaki storming outside at a tremendous speed. Kirara jumped up to stand on her hind legs and pushed her front paws against the window, making the whole thing fall out of the frames and down to the street below. She took a few step back before she bounced forwards, soaring through the window and high up into the sky to get Inu yasha. He would surely be able to help.
"Now, give me the boy and maybe I will let you go!" Kagome threatened with a firm voice that spoke of authority, making the two men even more frightened. Being sure she could handle the situation from here, Kagome was about to take a step closer to them when the sound of a door slamming echoed through both the corridor and the stairway, almost making her jump. What could it be, was it…? Then she suddenly remembered that one of the guys said they had called on the rest of the gang. This wasn't good. Unless there actually were vampires or demons among them, she would have a hard time bluffing her way out if it this time. Suppressing the pain from her wounds, Kagome gave the tiny pile of ash on the floor a quick look; there was no way they was going to believe that was all which was left of their former boss, no matter what the other two was willing to claim.
"Give him to me now!" Kagome ordered, tramped hard on the floor, "And tell your comrades to leave us less you want to end up as a pile of ash yourself!"
The man closest to Kentaro turned aside shakenly and lifted the boy up while the other man stared nervous between Kagome and the stairway. The sound of people tramping up the squeaking stairs made Kagome nervousness grow worse, but she had to firmly keep up the confident façade in front of them. "Good, now tell them to leave!"
The big man looked frightened at her and tried to formulate his words but Kagome understood that he wanted to prolong it until the rest of the men arrived, if nothing else then possible to hide among crowd. This wasn't what Kagome wanted. "NOW!" she repeated but it was too late. The men turned to look down the corridor and she knew the rest of their gang finally had arrived, she only prayed that it wasn't too many of them.
It was with great regret she understood her prayers were unheard when more than a dozen intimidating men ran up to the two who terrified thugs. The group quickly surrounded them and started to ask questions while not a few looked threatening back at her, probably correctly assuming that she was the cause behind this ruckus.
"What's going on here?" a male voice suddenly said. From her position in the wracked doorway could Kagome see a stern man in a long black leather coat walking towards them with an angry look on his face. "Oh crap!" Kagome tough and took a step backwards into the room she had come from. He was a human, that was for sure, just like the gang behind him she realized. "This doesn't look good."
The newcomer walked closer and didn't stop before he was standing between Kagome and the two men, staring at both parties. By his looks, his age seemed indeterminable and sported a strict, superior looking face, his head was shaven bald and a heavy, black leather coat reached down to his legs. On his face he had neither beard nor mustache such that his head looked long and narrow, and together with the coat it made Kagome think of a rebellious teen or an underground extremist. The latter probably wouldn't be far off.
At first, he stared venomous at the two men holding the boy, then he turned to Kagome and gave her a hard and scrutinizing gaze. "Are you the cause of trouble?" he demanded.
"There will be no trouble if you let me have the boy and leave!" Kagome replied firmly, not wanting to let a skinhead scare her after countless meetings with real demons… and quite recently, a vampire.
The man loomed tall and took a step closer to her, making Kagome unconscious take a step back and realized that while she had his complete attention, the other gang members didn't say a word.
"The one who's getting into trouble her is you young lady! You and that kid over there thanks to you," the man sneered. "Why are you here, I haven't heard anyone need a female around here. Who are you, what's your name and where do you come from? Did anybody tell you to come?" he asked while casting a look over his shoulder to see if anyone had a guilty face.
"Nobody invited me!" Kagome answered, "I am here to get Kentaro and that's it. He is going back to his parents where he belong or else you are going to regret it! And who I am is not of your concern." She kept her speech short and clear, not wanting to give away anymore then absolutely necessary.
The man did obviously not feel threatened and started to walk towards Kagome, and for each step he took, she took another step back until she was standing in the middle of the room. "I don't think so, you are a trespasser and will so be dealt with as one. You have been fortunate so far since the boss hasn't come to take care of you himself yet, I might be called… merciful in my dealings with others, but I guarantee you that my boss isn't so consider yourself lucky." Most of the other men where now following them into the room and lined up behind him along the wall. This however seemed to have brought his attention back to his thugs because he unexpectedly turned his head and looked sharply at the two frightened guys who still lingered on the other side of the broken door. "And speaking about the devil, where is the boss, it isn't like him to let a break in like this pass him. I swear that if you two has done anything stupid that has forced him to leave this building, I will give you to him!"
The two men, one of them was still holding Kentaro, gave each other a frightened look and made a feeble try to say something, without succeeding. Something that made the bald man even angrier;
"Answer!" he demanded with a fierce voice and showed them his fists. "I was in a middle of an important affair when I was told there was trouble here, if you have wasted my time just because little brat that broke in and you couldn't handle it, then you are in deep trouble!"
The man holding Kentaro who also had turned unhealthy pale by this point, eventually mustered what little courage he had left and pointed with a shaking hand to the pile of ash lying in the door frame.
"What is that supposed to mean, I asked for the whereabouts of the boss, not where you decided to empty your ash-trash! Now, give me a real answer!" he thundered, not being one with much patience.
"Th.. that is... him!" the answer came meekly, "Or what's left of him after the girl touched his face."
"Do not think for a moment that I am stupid. I won't listen to fairytales. Where is he?"
"B..but..tt I swear she.." the other man tried when a furious sneer stretched across the skinhead's face, frightening everybody in the room including Kagome herself. She then watched as he raised his arm slowly, pointing it accusingly towards them, "I will deal with you later… personally," then he turned back to Kagome with the same disgusted look upon his face. "I am surrounded by fools! Little girl, my patience has run out. If you can't tell me what really happened here and how you got inside, I will make your end a painful one."
Kagome swallowed and was beginning to feel not so little nervous again, since this one wasn't a demon there was no way she could use her powers on him like she did on the vampire, and of course he did not believe he had been told the truth either, who would that? Maybe if she had grabbed Kentaro and tried to flee the building a few moments earlier, she could have escaped, but that was impossible now because she would have to pass at least a dozen of his men before even getting out of the room and then it was the question of wrestling the child out of his kidnapper's hands.
Kirara found Inu Yasha quite easy, spotting him on the busy street with his red colors wasn't difficult, the only question nagging her was what he was doing out there and not inside the court building, guarding Kagome's friend. That question however would have to wait for later. She observed him from the sky until he wandered into an almost empty street before she dived down and scooped him up, frightening only a handful of humans who happened to watch it before returning to the sky.
"Hey, give me a warning, will yea?" Inu Yasha grunted, clinging to her body while she kept a steep angle upwards.
"Roar!" Kirara growled.
"Where is Kagome?" The half demon said, quickly realizing he was alone on Kirara. "She is in trouble, isn't she?" Inu Yasha concluded displeased. "I knew it, she can never stay out of trouble. Take me to her now!"
For the nekomata, that was an unnecessary order, she was already on her way.
In fast flight, it took them only a few minutes before Kirara recognized the run down building from above and started her descent. They landed in front of the rundown building and Inu Yasha jumped off, staring at it.
"Is Kagome inside?" Inu Yasha asked. Kirara gave him a positive nod and a low growl. "Keh, she should know better than entering an unknown place without me… she shouldn't be allowed to go anywhere without me." Suddenly a female scream echoed from inside the building and made Inu Yasha spin on his heel and made a dash for it. Kirara roared to attract the demon's attention, but Inu Yasha wouldn't listen and catapulted towards the closed main entrance of the building… which of course was the wrong entrance.
Inu Yasha bolted through the door, smashing it to pieces, "Kagome, where are you?" he yelled and looked franticly around but didn't get any reply. Not seeing anything inside the seedy room either, he stood still for a split second to let his ears pick up the sounds instead. They twitched and noticed voices coming from above. "Kagome, are you up there? Inu Yasha shouted and with a blur he found the staircase and flew upstairs until he couldn't get any further up.
"What? Where?" he said and looked into a deserted corridor that obviously hadn't been used for some time and he couldn't smell Kagome's scent anywhere either. This couldn't be right.
A "thump" and a "dunk" sounded from a room further inside.
"Kagome?" Inu Yasha yelled and ran towards the sound, forcing open a door to his right and entered a room that was almost pitch dark. "Where are you?"
But the room was just as empty as the corridor. Another thump led his attention to the ceiling. "It has to be another floor above, but how do I get up?" He growled and span his head so fast, looking for one that his long hair danced in the dark. The next sound made him almost panic. "Hold out Kagome, I am coming!" the half demon shouted, crotched down and such made a powerful jump towards the ceiling that made the floor beneath him creak.
Kagome rubbed her red glowing cheek with a gentle hand, the man had actually slapped her. Not only once, but twice! She refused however to let him have the satisfaction over seeing her cry over it, she was certainly NOT a little girl! Her hand left the cheek and stared back at him, hard. "How dare you!" she seethed. She felt so furious and so angry over being hit that she almost missed the familiar feeling of a demonic presence nearby. "Why does everybody believe it was okay to hit people?" Kagome took a deep breath to collect herself before her anger got the best of her and did something stupid.
The man looked far from intimated by her growing anger and continued staring at her with his superior and sadistic smile, "So you still refuse to talk? Then I suggest we play a game, I will give you a couple of questions, and for each time you fail to give me a satisfying answer I will let one of my men break a bone in the child's body, then we shall see if that is enough to loosen your tongue."
To a certain warm place with her anger control, Kagome clenched her fists and rose up to her toes and spoke to him with a low voice, filled with calm, controlled fury. "I don't know who you think you are, threatening people to keep silent in court, kidnapping defenseless children and telling me you are willing to break their bones, but I will not allow you or anyone else to escape with this. I have been beaten, kidnapped, fought in wars and have been attempted being dissolved in acid. I have also seen people being killed, abused, maimed and torn to pieces by monsters of your worst nightmare; no human will ever scare me to obedience!"
The man gave her a snort of pure disbelief.
"I tell you the truth!" Kagome raged and stared hard into his narrow eyes, "I fight demons and monsters every day, I am a priestess with powers you can't even imagine, I travel through time and space, and I dissolved your vampire boss with my own hands to the pile of ash you saw. And I swear, if you not you do as I say, I will summon a demon that will drag you to the deepest pits of hell!"
The people around them started mumbling and whispering to each other, some even laughed, but their leader was unfazed, "Alright, have it your way bitch, now I am going to…."
CRUNCH!
The sound of wood being crushed made the room go completely silent. All chatter died instantly as people began looking for the source of the sound, until one by one, they found it. Kagome whose eyes had been locked on the black clad guy, quickly scanned the room as well but was unable to find the source of the sound. The only thing telling her that something was terrible amiss, was the utter silence and the fourteen pair of eyes that where fixed on her and the scoundrel, or rather something that was beneath them. Kagome tore her gaze away from the surroundings and turned back to the villain in front of her, only to be met by a ghostly pale face of frozen denial in heart wrenching panic. His eyes wasn't looking at her anymore, instead they looked downwards. Kagome followed his gaze down to the floor; two clawed and blood dripping hands stuck up from the cracked wood, holding the man's legs in an iron grip….
This chapter turned out to be much longer than I originally meant for it to be, but after finishing it the first time, I went back and added more details.
I hope you will turn on next week as well. And as usual, please review and tell me what you think.