So Say The Blood Of The Moon -
Up on a ridge, stood a girl, a bow in her hand, arrows on her back. Her short green skirt flapped against her cream leg ever so lightly as the night wind blew. Above her in a tree sat a half-breed demon, his red sleeves also flapping in the wind. Both looking up at the night sky, at a moon so high and ever-changing. She thought it beautiful, but unknowing to her and their friends that stood behind them, the half-breed worried, though he himself knew not why. He was restless.
If someone were to look at the group, they would think it a pretty sight, a happy ending to a happy fairytale, but it was not the ending but the beginning, so say the blood of the moon.
"Let's go back to Kaede's," Inuyasha said as he jumped down from this tree. Kagome looked at her half-breed friend, "Something wrong, Inuyasha?"
"No, let's just go back."
The warm wind blew harder as he walked away, and his three friends watched him go.
"Somethings bothering him," Miroku spoke as Kagome walked back to her friends, "Yeah, I know."
The three friends then began to follow him back to Kaede's.
Elsewhere a demon Lord was making his way to an open field, yes, it was out of his way, but he dared not tell them that, and they did not question him. The Lord would often do this so that his ward could pick flowers and release some energy. But this night, when he made his way out of the woods, his eyes met the moon, the little girl and her flower picking far from his mind.
He stood and stared at it as if he were having a silent conversation with it.
"Jaken," Came his sharp, demanding tone. The imp jumped, "Yes, Milord?"
"We shall return."
Jaken looked confused for a moment, "Return Milord?"
The Lord looked down at his imp and then turned from him and began to walk away, "But milord, return where!" The imp called out after his master.
"Where else Jaken, the West," and he was gone, leaving the child and imp to catch up.
"The, THE WEST!?" Jaken was shocked; his Lord had long since left the West and had not returned since his father's death.
"Lord Sesshomaru, wait up!" A little girl called running after her Lord.
It was about that time that our little group returned to a small village they called their temporary home.
"Hey, old hag." Inuyasha landed on the old woman's roof; she was outside."Hello to you to Inuyasha," No thrill in her tone of surprise. Inuyasha sat quietly for a moment, "Hey, old woman, what's up with the moon?"
He had left his friends to catch up; he wanted to ask about the moon before they arrived. "Whatever do you mean, Inuyasha."
"Dont play dumb with me, old woman!" Inuyasha huffed, sitting up on her roof. Kaede smiled, though he could not see it "It's falling out of the sky."
"WHAT!" Inuyasha yelled, looking back down at her,
Kaede turned to him, "Be not a fool, Inuyasha."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes and stuck his nose in the air like a two-year-old, "Whatever old woman, but somethings going on, that moon ain't turning red for nothing."
Inuyasha made his way inside, and Kaede looked at the moon, she then heard her name being called, and she knew it was the rest of the group. Kaede eyed the moon as if to figure out what it was up with it, but she knew, she knew what was going on.
"Hmmm," came Kaede as she glanced at the slow-changing moon. "What say you blood of the moon?" But Kaede would receive no answer, and she looked away as the group came closer, there would be a time and place, they were all to know of what could come to be, or at least Kagome was to know, as Kaede was sure it would affect her and one other person she dare not bring up. Lord Sesshomaru.