Title: Moonlight Serenade
Author: landofthekwt
Genre: Kikyou's Pets
Rating: PG-13
Universe: Canon
Word Count: 300
Prompt: Moonlight The Wilted Rose Week 14
Warning: None
Summary: Soul Collectors gotta love 'em
They danced and swirled in the moonlight. The tree was alive with glowing lights as the souls hung from the branches like so much ripe fruit. They glided around the tree in intricate patterns known only to them until their mistress crooked her finger at one of them.
The grateful serpent would then swoop down the priestess and deposit its life giving cargo, If they were lucky she would tickle them under the chin or whisper sweet words of thanks. Some times she lay back in the tree with eyes closed and simply absorbed the soul into herself.
It made no difference to the soul collectors. They lived to serve. Their only thoughts were about the health of Kikyou which could only be maintained if she was constantly supplied with the life giving nourishment which they were more than eager to provide. They knew that her life depended upon them.
Others found them hideous, these eel like demons of the air. To Kikyou they were the pets she never had. She could confide anything to them. Since she had never had a friend a companion would have to do. They were her aerial transportation, her guardians and defenders.
They would attack whom she wished without regard to their survival. They would go where she went even if it meant their death. They had been the first creatures she befriended after she was resurrected and they would the creatures who bear her soul to heaven.
Tonight they snaked around the tree bathing it in light so bright it woke the dead. She gazed up and smiled at them. It would so appropriate for one was dead to served by demons who collected the souls of the dead. It reminded her of what she was and what had been taken from her.